How We Support Health Care Professionals
Novartis is proud to offer HCPs a variety of on-demand and downloadable resources about the oncology care experience, from understanding oral and precision oncology and palliative care to communicating about quality of life issues and much more.
Health Care Provider Burnout
Both providers and patients feel the impact of physician burnout in a variety of ways. These resources help health care providers – and the institutions they work for – identify and cope with burnout, understand their risk, and develop strategies to increase resiliency and minimize burnout.
Addressing and Preventing in Your Organization
This video educates leaders on how to help prevent health care provider burnout in a medical practice or hospital.
Prevalence and Consequences of Burnout and Stress
This video explains the prevalence and potential consequences of stress and burnout in health care providers.
Recognizing and Preventing Burnout in Yourself and Others
This video illustrates symptoms of stress and burnout, and how to help prevent burnout in health care providers.
Precision Oncology
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, precision oncology uses biomarkers to develop treatments that fit each unique patient, targeting the aberrant molecular pathways that cause cancer growth. Health care providers who want to learn more about precision oncology's evolution, dynamics, and trends will find resources here.
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Fundamentals and Advances of Precision Oncology Episode 2: Biomarkers: What, When, Where, and How
This episode explains biomarker tests, describing what biomarkers are, how and when they are used, and how they are detected. A review of companion diagnostics, laboratory-developed tests, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) is also presented.
Fundamentals and Advances of Precision Oncology Episode 3: Clinical and Economic Value
This video discusses the value of precision oncology and biomarker testing, including how biomarker tests are driving treatment guidelines, the actors influencing payer coverage, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and the biomarker reimbursement process.
Addressing and Preventing Burnout in Your OrganizationFundamentals and Advances of Precision Oncology Episode 5: Opportunities and Issues
This episode discusses intrapatient heterogeneity and tumor complexity, introduces liquid biopsy and their key advantages in biomarker testing, and reviews current initiatives to advance precision oncology.
The Precision Oncology Annual Trend Report: Perspectives From Oncologists, Pathologists, and Payers, Seventh Edition
This report sheds light on dynamics and trends impacting stakeholder alignment on biomarker testing, tests and their respective targeted therapies, and the pathology lab's ability to perform tests in a timely manner.
Oral Oncology
During treatment with oral oncology medications, health care providers, patients, and their caregivers may benefit from educational and support resources specific to navigating care with oral oncology medications, which may be different from other forms of oncology treatment.
Featured Resources
Oral Oncology Coordination of Care
In this video, Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, explains how to coordinate care for patients receiving oral oncolytics.
Empathetic Listening and Effective Communication: A Guide for Pharmacists
This video discusses how pharmacy staff can effectively communicate to improve oncology patient and caregiver interactions.
Additional Resources
Caregiver’s Role in Adherence in Oral Oncology Care Coordination
In this video, Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, explains the important role caregivers play in patient adherence to oral oncolytics.
Technology's Role in Coordinating Oral Oncology Care
In this video, Ryan J. Haumschild, PharmD, discusses the role of technology in coordinating oral oncology care.
Palliative Care
Palliative care is a specialized approach to medical treatment for patients with serious or life-threatening diseases. These resources can facilitate conversation between health care providers, patients and caregivers about early adoption of palliative care, and its benefits.
Considerations for Providing Palliative Care
In this video, Bridget Scullion, PharmD, talks about addressing challenges in palliative care.
Palliative Care for Patients and Caregivers
In this video, Bridget Scullion, PharmD, discusses palliative care, encouraging conversation about its integration into early care management.
Exploring the Benefits of Palliative Care
In this video, Bridget Scullion, PharmD, explains the many benefits of palliative care.
Quality of Life
Quality of life metrics can help the patient care team develop shared goals beyond symptom and disease management. The resources here provide an overview of instruments, and facilitate communication between health care providers, patients and caregivers about quality of life.
Introduction to Quality-of-Life Measures
This video explains quality of life measures and how they are used in oncology care.
Quality-of-Life Measures in Action
This video discusses how quality of life measures can affect oncology treatment.
Drug Development
Learn how significant advances in medical science, drug trial designs, and the FDA's Accelerated Review Process have resulted in more oncology therapy options for physicians and cancer patients.
Radioligand Therapy
Radioligand therapy (RLT) has emerged as a new class of precision oncology drugs over the past few years. RLT combines two elements – a targeting compound which binds to markers expressed by tumors, and a radioactive isotope. Together, these elements aim to deliver targeted radiation to the tumor and cause DNA damage in order to inhibit tumor growth and replication. These resources share best practices for developing a radioligand therapy program.
