CONTEXT:  Commercial announcement of a tie-up between a university pharmacy and an RWD provider with the aim of disrupting the way physicians prescribe by giving them real-time, evidence-based treatment options.  Interesting stuff. IMPACT:  Medium READ TIME:  1 min Quality Level Mean [1 – 10]:  8 1. “”I’ve always maintained that drugs are the cornerstone of all healthcare outcomes and that higher quality, more effective drug regimens will always yield a manageable total cost of care.””  2. “Agilum’s partnership with LIU Pharmacy will further facilitate the critical work of training the next generation of pharmacy leaders in how to use technology to revolutionize healthcare.”  3. “As part of the program, the fellows will spend two years working alongside faculty and staff at LIU Pharmacy’s drug information center and the experts at Agilum to identify areas of unmet need in assessing the efficacy, costs and outcomes of pharmaceutical drugs.”  4. “The fellows will have full access to CRCA P&T, a longitudinal database that contains records from tens of millions of de-identified patients across the entire country, to generate real-world evidence identifying the most efficacious patient care regimens.”  5. “Our proprietary Comparative Rapid Cycle Analytics™ (CRCA™) solution leverages a revolutionary longitudinal census population database to help healthcare leaders make more informed formulary decisions that reduce costs and improve quality of care, while our advanced Service Line Costing & Profitability platform enables insights within the healthcare organization to help manage profitability, boost departmental efficiency and optimize revenues.”  Source URL: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/revolutionary-pharmacy-analytics-platform-is-using-real-world-patient-data-to-change-the-paradigm-for-both-healthcare-and-education-301253242.html