Why Clients Choose Kudos Health: The Premier Partner in Healthcare Market Research

When it comes to healthcare market research, the choice of partner can make or break a project. At Kudos Health, we understand the critical importance of delivering high-quality, reliable, and hassle-free services. Here's why clients consistently choose Kudos Health for their research needs.

1. Unparalleled Quality of Data and Recruitment

At Kudos Health, we pride ourselves on the meticulousness and precision of our data collection methods. Our recruitment processes are second to none, ensuring that the participants we engage are not only relevant but also representative of the target demographic. This commitment to quality means that our clients receive data they can trust and act upon.

2. Rock-Solid Reliability

In the fast-paced world of healthcare research, reliability is key. Kudos Health has built a reputation for being a dependable partner. Our clients know that they can count on us to deliver accurate and timely results, every single time. This reliability allows them to plan and execute their projects with confidence.

3. Transparent and Fixed Costs

Budget overruns can be a nightmare for any research project. Kudos Health offers fixed cost solutions, ensuring that our clients can manage their budgets effectively. We believe in transparency, providing clear and detailed cost breakdowns from the outset. No hidden fees, no unexpected charges—just straightforward pricing that our clients appreciate.

4. Regular Updates

Communication is at the heart of our service offering. We provide our clients with regular updates throughout the research process, keeping them informed and engaged. This transparency not only builds trust but also ensures that any issues can be addressed promptly, keeping the project on track.

5. No Hassle, No Fuss

Managing a research project can be complex and time-consuming. At Kudos Health, we take the hassle out of the process. From recruitment to data collection and analysis, we handle every aspect of the research. Our clients can focus on their core work, knowing that their project is in expert hands.

6. Comprehensive Project Management

Our end-to-end project management approach means that we take care of all the details. From the initial planning stages through to the final report, we ensure that every element of the research is meticulously managed. This holistic approach guarantees that our clients receive a seamless service, delivering results that meet their exact needs.

The Kudos Health Difference

Choosing Kudos Health means partnering with a team that is dedicated to your success. Our commitment to quality, reliability, transparency, and client-focused service sets us apart in the healthcare market research field. We take care of the setup, data collection and recruitment, so our clients can focus on making informed decisions that drive their own and their clients’ business forward.

For more information on how Kudos Health can support your research needs, please contact Volker Balk vbalk@kudosresearch.com and/or Marella Fernandes mfernandes@kudoshealthresearch.com

Wir sind gut aufgestellt, um unsere Klienten wie immer schnell und effizient zu unterstützen!

Kudos Health Biotech setzt Tools ein, um weiterhin telefonische Tiefeninterviews (TDIs) mit Screen Sharing, Quantitative Datenerfassung, Recruitment und Moderation von Qual-Interviews sowie Web & Panel-Recruiting lückenlos unterstützen. Unsere Teams sind alle aufgesetzt, um von Zuhause aus weiterarbeiten zu können. Monitoring, Supervision und Qualitätskontrolle werden durch das Live-Mithören und Recording über die Software, sowie über Kommunikationsplattformen und regelmäßige Videokonferenzen sichergestellt.

Gerne senden wir Ihnen Informationen zu. Kontaktieren Sie dafür bitte Volker Balk: vbalk@kudosresearch.com

Kudos Health and the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak

To all our panel members, clients, connections, friends and colleagues, we wanted to touch base with all of you and keep you updated on what is going on at Kudos Health. 

Our two offices in London and Berlin are still operational. Almost all of our employees are currently working from home with a few still working from the office. 

We have started four new projects in the last three days and we intend to keep working unless respective governments instruct us otherwise. 

We believe that it is important to make the best of the situation and to keep busy. 

Working on projects also helps us support the WHO’s COVID-19 Response Fund. We are donating the equivalent of Pound/Euro 5 per interview we conduct. This has already been implemented on all of our surveys. 

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donate

It seems like this situation will last a long while and we at Kudos Health have decided to be pragmatic about it. Early research suggests that effected people build resistance to the virus and are hopefully protected when the next waves come. There will be vaccines at some point but we all know how long it can take for them to be available to everyone. The good news is that there are first clinical trials. 

Until there is a solution we all have to be vigilant, follow WHO’s instructions and look after each other. Be kind!

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

We will keep you updated on projects and where we stand.

Thank you everyone for all your support! In the meantime, stay safe and stay healthy!

The Kudos Health Team

As a premium healthcare data-collection provider in the market research industry, Kudos Health are proud to sponsor the BOBI ‘Best Use of Innovation’ award. As well as staying ahead in the intelligence stakes, success requires that we pioneer new ways of looking at, responding to and acting on challenges that arise. Companies have to be nimble and innovative to provide clients with the service and results they demand. This creative agility is something we pride ourselves on and are delighted to celebrate in the industry.

BHBIA Awards 2019

Kudos Health and Findacure are hosting the second #KudosHealthDay for patients and patient groups. The topic this time is social research and how to go about it. Whether it be to assess the impact of a project, identify a community’s research priorities, or collect evidence on the burden of disease on patients and their families, social research can be very valuable to the work of rare disease patient organisations - but getting started can be a difficult process. Kudos Health are working in partnership with Findacure to deliver this workshop, which will cover what social research is, how patient organisations can benefit from conducting social research, best practice, and how to avoid common pitfalls. The workshop will conclude with an interactive forum, which will help patient organisations to plan and oversee their next social research project. The workshop is free to attend. Please contact vbalk@kudosresearch.com for more information and to register.

Are you working in a laboratory or are somewhat involved in lab work?

We have a variety of life sciences projects in field at the moment. We are interviewing people who work in research, analytics, procurement and manufacturing in the area of life sciences, biotech and pharma. All our surveys are incentivised.

If you are working in a laboratory or are somewhat involved in lab work you could be the right respondent. If you are interested in participating or know someone who might be, please register below and/or pass on the link.

Register here to participate in life sciences surveys

We are looking for participants in US, UK, Germany, France, China, South Korea, Japan, Brazil but all our research is global and everyone is invited to join.  Any information you give will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Thank you for your interest in our work!

Life Sciences is an exciting and fast-moving industry. Some of the world’s most innovative organisations, from universities, researchers, biotech and pharma giants to start-ups, are working furiously at a rich seam of innovative technologies to produce advances that ultimately make life better for everyone.

Kudos Research has an unparalleled level of data-collection experience in the field of Life Sciences and offer a holistic, solutions-focussed end-to-end services to support the research process throughout. As such, we are well positioned as the leading data collection specialist for this audience globally.

Research

Our detailed grasp of the processes for the discovery, development and commercialisation of new pharmaceutical and biotech products, enables us to accurately identify and engage with experts at each stage of the process. At the research stage in the process, we help clients conduct a dialogue with researchers, lab technicians, lab managers, and procurement personnel in academia, bio-pharma research, commercial/biological research, government, and pharma research.

Testing and Analytics

Once the primary research has been done, thorough testing helps to ensure that the new product really will fly. Understanding commercial opportunity is like learning how a new molecule affects an organism. Just as the novel technology has been proven physiologically, so its performance in the wild must be properly tested and understood.At the testing stage of the process, we talk to lab technicians, QA/QC technicians, lab managers, and procurement in the following sectors - environmental, food & beverage, forensic, chemical & industrial, government, cosmetics, medical labs, diagnostics and testing.

Commercialisation

Successful commercialisation all the way from up- to downstream of bioprocesses means working closely with pharma/bio-pharma manufacturing scientists, heads of pharma/biopharma manufacturing, pharma/bio-pharma management, and pharma/bio-pharma procurement in bio-pharma manufacturing, bio-pharma research & development, pharma manufacturing, and pharma research & development.

Kudos Health: Life Sciences Panel of Experts

We have panels of life sciences experts and stakeholders in the US, China, Japan, Korea, the UK, Germany and France. Our panel members stand ready to contribute their insight at any stage. We offer every conceivable methodology for fieldwork, whether quantitative, qualitative, or a mix of both.

We use market-leading CATI and CAWI technology where appropriate to help the research run smoothly and efficiently. We can go in via the phone or online or mixed mode and screen sharing.

Our experienced moderators can conduct depth interviews or recruit for them to be conducted by others.Our work includes online quantitative and depth interviewing over the telephone from our international call centre in London.

Some projects combine these two methodologies. We have conducted depth interview projects involving online max-diff exercises and/or concept testing using screen-shared materials. We have even run recruitment drives to full day workshops.

For more infomation please contact vbalk@kudoshealthresearch.com

Are you working in the life sciences industry and want to join our panel of experts?

Sign up here:

https://www.kudosresearch.com/lifesciences

#KudosHealthDay -Getting Patient Groups Ready for GDPR

This is a free invite only event for patient groups, please contact: vbalk@kudoshealthresearch.com if you want to be included.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most significant change to data protection in the UK and EU since 1995. Designed for the digital age, with strengthened individual rights and greater business accountability, it will impact organisations of all sizes processing personal data.   

The new regulation will be enforced in all EU Member States from May 2018 meaning that compliance must be a top priority for UK-based organisations.  It’s vital that patient organisations are ready to meet the new obligations and responsibilities that the GDPR will bring, especially in light of decline in public trust if data protection responsibilities not met as well as the more robust enforcement regime under the GDPR.

Our GDPR expert speaker will talk about the impact of GDPR and how organisations need to prepare for this important change of data protection legislation. 

She will offer advice and tips on best GDPR practice. Her presentation will take around 60 minutes followed by a Q&A session of around 30 minutes. 

Volker Balk, Head of Kudos Health will advice on what to do next and where to find relevant information for patient groups to achieve compliance.

Findacure will provide an update on their important work. Findacure is a UK charity that builds the rare diseases community to drive research and develop treatments.

The workshop is hosted by Kudos Health and free to attend. This event is to support and empower patient advocacy and patient groups.

Light refreshments will be provided and the building has disability-friendly access. The closest station is Stratford which also has disability friendly access.

This is a free invite only event for patient groups, please contact: vbalk@kudoshealthresearch.com if you want to be included.

Register here

Kudos Health are proud to sponsor the BOBI ‘Best Patient-Centric Approach’ award

As a premium healthcare data-collection provider, Kudos Health are proud to sponsor the BOBI ‘Best Patient-Centric Approach’ award. Making a real difference to patients’ lives is something we care deeply about, and we know that insightful patient research is reliant on quality data. In the course of our research we excavate the stories that help to drive real understanding and action within the pharma industry. We are excited to help identify issues around needs, usability and effectiveness. It is vital work that helps put patients front and centre of the development of medical treatment and care

Apply here

The difference between healthcare systems in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Kudos Health conducts market research and data collection all across the world. We regularly interview professionals in Asia and in particularly in China and Hong Kong.

Hong Kong was under British control until the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China in 1997. Hong Kong still maintains a separate political and economic system from China and is one of the world’s most significant financial centres.

Under the Basic Law of Hong Kong, Mandarin is an official language along with Cantonese and English. Mandarin is used more and more in Hong Kong but Cantonese and English are still predominant languages. Our team contacting respondents in Hong Kong speaks native Cantonese and English and our team interviewing respondentsin mainland China speaks Mandarin.

Healthcare systems in Hong Kong and mainland China are very different.

According to a recent report*1 of the Food and Health Bureau of HKSAR Government, at the end of 2016, there are over 99 000 healthcare professionals from the 13 professions which are subject to statutory registration, including Doctors, Pharmacists, Registered Nurses, etc.

Healthcare professionals in Hong Kong are much more accessible for interviewing in market research than healthcare professionals in China.

*1 http://www.hpdo.gov.hk/tc/index.html

Most of the healthcare workers work in hospitals and in China, most hospitals are run by the government. Since 1989, these hospitals are graded every 3 years into 3-tiers and 10 levels in order to reflect the hospitals’ sizes and abilities.

Primary hospitals are those with 21-99 beds and more than 0.7 healthcare professions per bed; they provide preventive care, minimal care and rehabilitation services.

Secondary hospitals contain 100-499 beds with more than 0.88 healthcare professions per bed. They are responsible for providing comprehensive health services, as well as medical education and conducting research on a regional basis.

Tertiary hospitals have more than 500 beds and more than 1.03 healthcare professions per bed. They are responsible for providing specialist health services, medical education and scientific research and they serve as medical hubs providing care to multiple regions

These 3 grades are further subdivided into 3 subsidiary levels: A, B and C (甲[jiǎ], 乙[yǐ], 丙[bǐng]） based on their management, equipment and management. In addition, one special level - 3AAA is reserved for the most specialized hospitals

The charges of medical service are based on the grading and the percentage of the medical insurance reclaimed varies with different grades of the hospital.

End of part 1. Part 2 will be posted soon. Please check our Tweets for updates. @Kudos_Health

Thank you to Yat Yu Penelope Lam for contributing to this blog! Yat Yu is a Chinese Medicine Partitioner from Hong Kong currently living in London/UK.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/penelope-lam-5a8585145/