The Value of Patient Perspectives in Answering Key Business Questions
Published March 1st, 2024 | 3 Minute Read
Patient input is vital from a commercial, research, and clinical perspective. They alone are the experts in their experience with a given condition. Enhanced understanding of the patient experience can help ensure that communications are clear and relevant to the target audience to help identify and drive patient-centered solutions and care strategies.
For over a decade, Health Union has regularly fielded condition-specific surveys within its growing portfolio of online health communities to bring the voice of the patient to the forefront. These surveys have collected thousands of responses from patients and caregivers living with a range of chronic and complex conditions. They have become deeply valuable sources – to both Health Union and industry partners – of timely, relevant, patient-reported data that offer genuine insight into the patient experience.
In recent years, Health Union’s syndicated offerings have expanded to better meet client needs, ranging from high-level reports for clients seeking condition overviews or specific data points to comprehensive reports that take an in-depth look at the patient experience. Core components of Health Union’s syndicated program include:
In America, an annual IRB-approved survey that collects condition-specific feedback from over 30,000 respondents, across 50 conditions. This streamlined survey provides high-level insights into condition impact as well as treatment awareness, use, and satisfaction and offers an opportunity to examine similarities and differences across conditions.
Patient Experience, a condition-specific, in-depth, IRB-approved research program, that focuses on quality of life, unmet needs, HCP dynamics and relationship, disease burden, treatment awareness, and treatment experiences — with quota-sampling to better represent important subgroups.
These core components mean that Health Union can now better help clients:
- Understand condition-specific patient journeys
- Validate target patient profiles (in terms of demographics, disease burden, treatment experiences, and information-seeking)
- Construct brand user profiles and how they compare to others using a competing product
- Explore varied condition experiences and the changes that occur according to line of therapy or disease stage
- Augment situation analyses and/or RWE or HEOR-related analyses
Health Union’s syndicated research harnesses patient driven insights to help brands develop foundational knowledge from the patient perspective.
Want to know if Health Union offers syndicated reports in a specific condition? The full range of available and upcoming research reports can be found here.
Interested in learning more? We invite you to fill out the form below.
Related Articles
Patient Interest in Digital Inhaler for Asthma and COPD
Survey data of asthma and COPD patients show that nearly half of each surveyed population are highly interested in using a digital inhaler.
Hormone Therapy “Shopping” with Endometriosis
Health Union survey of more than 1,200 women with endometriosis reveals nearly 4 in 10 have tried 5+ different hormone therapies to manage their condition.
More Positive Experiences When Fewer Doctors Needed to Diagnose Ankylosing Spondylitis
People with ankylosing spondylitis who consulted four or more HCPs while seeking a diagnosis experience more difficult patient journeys.
Related Articles
CGRP Therapies for Migraine Effect on Quality of Life
Survey finds positive HCP relationships, negative quality of life for chronic migraine patients who currently use vs. never used CGRP therapies.
Facebook advertising to increase online community engagement: Results of the LungCancer.net advertisement campaign
Research findings show that Facebook advertising is a feasible recruiting tool for online health communities and, from additional industry and academic research partnership insights, may be leveraged to help future researchers more effectively engage patients to participate in online communities or interventions, ultimately enhancing health outcomes.
Omnipresence of scanxiety for patients with lung cancer and its impact on quality of life
It was found that a large majority of lung cancer patients surveyed reported experiencing scanxiety, with no significant differences in differing type of lung cancer, time since diagnosis, current stage, or scan frequency.