Emyria Data Validated, Care Model Reduces Opioids
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07/06/2021
Emyria data validated, care model reduces opioids, opening new
opportunities
Highlights:
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Analysis of large drug community dispensing data shows a significant reduction
in opioid use following commencement of a personalised treatment program
involving cannabinoid medicine at Emyria’s Emerald Clinics
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Opioid prescription dispensing data provided by IQVIA (NYSE: IQV) and NostraData
validates the quality and utility of Emyria’s proprietary clinical data
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The data show that, on average opioid consumption reduces after commencing
care at Emerald Clinics from a previous 12 month steady-state of opioid-use
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Opioid abuse continues to be a major health issue worldwide, with nearly 50,000
people dying per year in the USA alone from opioid-involved overdoses [1]
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Emyria will further and deeply analyse the data to assess potential for new
registered treatments with the FDA for opioid-sparing[AV1] .
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Emyria to present data to health insurers and payers for increased clinic and patient
funding and expansion support for better health outcomes and potential health
economic benefits
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Emyria has engaged Professor David Preen, Chair of Public Health at UWA and Chief
Investigator for the Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines Intelligence to
continue independent research on Emyria Data [2]
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Emyria to continue investment in care model innovation and proprietary,
software-powered clinical decision support tools backed by Emyria Data
Emyria Limited (ASX: EMD) (Emyria or the Company), a data-backed treatment
development and clinical services company, is pleased to share preliminary results of an
engagement between Emyria, IQVIA and NostraData. Emyria Managing Director and CEO, Dr
Michael Winlo, will present these findings on Monday, June 7th 2021 at the Annual National
Summit of the Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists (ARCS). The ARCS
presentation covering the first phase of analysis accompanies this ASX release.
Emyria engaged the Real World Evidence (RWE) analytics team of IQVIA - a $44B contract
research organisation - and NostraData, to validate Emyria’s medication tracking data and
build comparison patient cohorts. Comparison cohorts can be used as external controls and
improve the analysis of Emyria’s care models and drug development programs.
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Emyria’s Managing Director, Dr Michael Winlo, said: “I’m very pleased to present the early
findings of a world-first data-linkage project combining Emyria’s clinical data with
prescription drug dispensing data from partners IQVIA and NostraData.
This project allowed us to understand the historical opioid usage patterns of our patients in
the 12 months prior to receiving personalised care at our Emerald Clinics through an
anonymous matching process.
The analysis shows that patients receiving personalised care at Emerald Clinics reduce their
opioids substantially while also gaining improvements in pain symptoms and quality of life
measures. Importantly, the analysis demonstrates both the validity, reach and richness of
Emyria Data assets as well as the effectiveness of Emyria’s Care programs.
Emyria has engaged academic partners to continue independent research and will further
analyse the data for intellectual property, potential treatments for the USA and the
development of proprietary clinical decision support software tools.”
Figure 1. Average oral morphine equivalent daily dose (OMEDD) scores for Emyria patients 12
months before and 12 months during care.
The company expects to produce further reports on the data analysis in due course.
This announcement has been approved and authorised by the Board of Emyria Limited.
For further information on Emyria:
Dr Michael Winlo
Managing Director
(08) 6559 2800
mwinlo@emyria.com
Lexi O’Halloran
Investor Relations
+ 61 (0) 404 577 076
lexi@janemorganmanagement.com.au
Andrew Williams
Media Relations
+61 (0) 412 614 125
andreww@profilemedia.com.au
REFERENCES
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7015a1.htm
[2] https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/new-centre-monitors-medicine-use-and-safety
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Investor Webinar
Emyria’s Managing Director and CEO, Dr, Michael Winlo will present an overview of today’s
release “EMD’s care model reduces opioid use” and provide the latest preliminary results of a
collaboration between Emyria, IQVIA and NostraData.
Details of the event are as follows:
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Event: Emyria Investor Webinar
Webinar Presenter: Emyria’s Managing Director, Dr, Michael Winlo
Date and Time: Tuesday 8 June 2021, 11:45am AEDT
Where: Zoom Webinar - details to be provided upon registration
To register your interest in the webinar please click through to the link below.
Registration Link:
https://janemorganmanagement-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qCzy0GPsT0ivAYi4RgjLVw
After registering your interest, you will receive a confirmation email with information about
joining the webinar. Participants will be able to submit questions via the panel throughout
the presentation, however, we encourage shareholders and investors to send through
questions via email beforehand to Lexi O’Halloran at: lexi@janemorganmanagement.com.au
About Emyria (www.emyria.com)
Emyria Limited is a data-backed, drug development company. Emyria’s Treatments target
unmet needs and are focused on obtaining approval from major global regulators. Emyria’s
drug development programs are informed by insights generated from extensive analysis of
Emyria Data - deep, ethically-sourced clinical evidence that is gathered with patients across
Emyria’s independent clinical services (Emerald Clinics - www.emeraldclinics.com.au)
Emyria Data provides deep treatment insights and is therefore a source of unique IP,
strategically designed drug development and personalised care programs.
Emyria’s first drug development program, EMD-003 is targeting unmet needs in mental
health. Specifically psychological distress and the symptoms of anxiety, depression and
stress.
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Innovation in Real World
Evidence: Pioneering
new frontiers
Bridging the clinic to
the community
Dr Michael Winlo, Managing Director, Emyria
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Tensions between Care + Research:
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Tensions between Care + Research:
Care of
individual
PURPOSE
Systematic
investigation
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Tensions between Care + Research:
Exercise of
profession
DECISION-MAKING
Adherence to
protocols
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Tensions between Care + Research:
Inclusive
PARTICIPATION
Exclusive
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Tensions between Care + Research:
Required but…
variable quality
DOCUMENTATION
Good clinical
practice (GCP)
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Tensions between Care + Research: Advancing the frontier
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Emyria creates registered treatments
for under-served populations using our
proprietary clinical evidence
“Emyria owns clinics, cares for patients, invests in
technology, generates data, creates evidence
and develops programs to accelerate the
registration of new treatments, including our
own.”
Dr Michael Winlo, MD and CEO
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Creates
Informs
• Access to patients & clinicians
• Data capture technology
Emyria
Care
• Ongoing patient
monitoring & evaluation
Emyria
Emyria data
Emyria
• We learncare
from every
• In-house analytics
• Clinical trial & drug
registration expertise
patient to improve care
Informs
Treatment
development
Data
informs
Accelerates
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Emyria
Care
Emyria
Data
Emyria’s current treatment
development programs
Mental health
- CBD medicine
- Entering clinical
outcomes studies
- Seeking Schedule 3
registration
EMD-003
Emyria data
Emyria care
• 7 sites around Australia
• GCP-trained clinical team
• 4,000 patients and growing
• Patients aged 2 - 96years
• Over 40 clinical indications
• Validated assessments
• Clinical-trial-grade data
• Millions of data points
• Unique dose response insights
• Source of IP
Others
- Irritable Bowel
Syndrome
(EMD-004)
informs
- Chronic Pain
EMD-00X
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Emyria patients: Primary indication seeking care
Mental Health
• Insomnia
• PTSD
• Anxiety disorders
12%
Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
• Neuropathic
• Inflammatory
• Mixed
• Migraine
66%
9%
6%
8%
Cancer symptoms
• Pain
• CINV
• Anorexia
Neurological disorders
• Dementia
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Epilepsy
Other
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Fibromyalgia
• Alcohol and other drug abuse
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Chronic pain patients at Emyria
• Age
60.1 years (SD 17.01)
• FT work
19%
• Gender:
61.4% female
• CNCP:
• Poly-pharmacy
• opiates:
• synthetic
49.3%,
• non-synthetic
77.3%
• Neuropathic
(55.9%),
• paracetamol
74.4%
• Inflammatory
(5.6%),
• antidepressants
54.7% (including duloxetine, amitriptyline)
• Mixed
(30.6%),
• anticonvulsants
35.8% (pregabalin, gabapentin, valproate)
• “other”
(7.9%)
• benzodiazepines
38.8%
• >2 years
90% (>5 yrs 63%)
• Multi-morbidity
• Interventions
38.4%
• facet joint injections
39.8%
• Insomnia
76.1%
• cryorhizotomies
21.7%
• OA
45.1%
• surgery
34.6%
• MH disorders
43.1%
• GI disorders
35.4%
• others
42.1%
• Recent cannabis use
15.1%
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Emyria’s chronic pain care model:
Detailed patient consent
Regular, in-depth assessments and reviews to
measure what’s working
Personalised treatment schedule - informed
by our data and the prior experience of
similar, “patients like you”
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Case Study - Bob
•
Vietnam Veteran | injured by fall in 1969 | multiple fractures
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Chronic back pain | peripheral neuropathy from Agent Orange | PTSD
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At initial visit: oxycontin | buprenorphine | pregabalin | gabapentin | PEA
duloxetine – with little relief and side effects.
•
Now: Stable at 15mg 1:1 THC/CBD | ceased all opiates, pregabalin and PEA
Scores
Initial assessment
Visit 5
BPI Pain severity score
5.0
1.75
BPI Pain interference score
5.29
0.86
Visual analogue scale
5.0
1.0
Insomnia severity score
12.0
1.0
DASS 42 Depression
14
4
DASS 42 Anxiety
16
2
DASS 42 Stress
16
12
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Opioid use disorder: Massive global problem
Opioids for
chronic pain
Australia
USA
The U.S. economic cost of opioid
use disorder ($471B) and fatal
opioid overdose ($550B) during
2017 totalled $1,021 billion.
[1]
[2]
Sources:
[1] https://ndri.curtin.edu.au/news-events/ndri-news/media-release-the-cost-of-opioid-use-to-australia
[2] https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7015a1.htm
[3]
We need more effective,
evidence-backed treatments
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CASE STUDY:
How effective is Emyria’s unique care model
at reducing opioid use*?
* measured via average oral morphine equivalent daily
dose (“OMEDD”)
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Emyria Care: OMEDD Results over 6 months (n=503)
High. >90mg/day
34.2% reduction
(p-value <0.0001)
Moderate 40-90mg/day
Low <40mg/day
33.1% reduction
(p-value 0.01)
Patients also reported:
- Decreased pain severity
+ interference
- Improvements in
psychological distress
and quality of life (QoL)
25% reduction
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Emyria Care: Questions?
Q2:
- What is the OMEDD
trend of our patients,
“before” they receive
Emyria Care?
Q1:
- Can we validate our
findings with external,
third-party Real-World
Evidence?
Q3:
- What happens to
patients once they stop
treatment?
- Can we make a
control?
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The TEAM!
• NostraData collects dispensed prescription data from over 4,500 retail
community pharmacies across Australia
• Using special technology, NostraData can safely and securely collect the
cleanest and most accurate data in the industry
• NostraData can then load, cleanse, map, stack and rack the data in visually
stunning reports and datasheets
• IQVIA is a global (NYSE: IQV) biopharmaceutical development company
focussed on Phase I-IV clinical trials, laboratory and analytical services
• IQVIA Real World Solutions enables customers to generate and disseminate
real world evidence to answer crucial questions
• IQVIA has a network of more than 70,000 employees in more than 100 countries
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Linking the DATA: Is it RESEARCH-GRADE?
Source verification (can you trust it?)
Data quality
Completeness (QMS) (can you use it?)
Standards (can you link + generalise results?)
Patient consent (are patients involved? Can you share data?)
Data Governance
De-identification process (is privacy protected?)
Secure transfer + tracking (can you manage cyber risk?)
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STEP 1: LINK THE DATA
Data
Patients provided by Emyria
1029 patients
Patients found with Master Patient IDs in ND
1020 patients
Patients with more than 1 visit
LRx
786 patients
Patients with at least 1 dispensation of analgesics (ATC
N02) or opioids between the first visit +/- n days where n
can be either 365 days or the cannabinoid treatment
duration, whichever is the greatest. *
* Ensures the ND panel
captures dispensations of
analgesics or opioids in the
proximity of the first visit of
each active patient.
711 patients
Patients with analgesics dispensations for at least 50% of the
months in the observation period
470 patients
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STEP 2: BUILD AN OMEDD MODEL FOR LRx
one-month lookback window
Palexia SR
200mg 28
Regular
opioids
a
a
a
b
a
b
b
b
b
d1 days
Norspan patch
25mcg/hr 2
c
c
c
c
d2 days
Tramadol SR
100mg 20
d
d
d
d
d
d
d
d3 days
Shortacting
opioids
Endone 5mg 20
Palexia IR
50mg 20
Time
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Emyria Visit
date
Look back one month prior to the Emyria visit date.
For each regular opioid dispensation, calculate the oMEDD score based on the SKU strength and the label instruction. The theoretical days of supply are
calculated based on the number of packs dispensed and the daily dose decoded from the label instruction. As shown above, the blue rectangles and the
letters represent the days of supply and the oMEDD scores respectively. If the label instruction does not give any useful daily dose (e.g. “Use as directed”), the
most common day of supply for that SKU is used.
For each regular opioid SKU, determine the longest span ended on the visit date, which are denoted as d1, d2 and d3 days above. The average oMEDD score
for each SKU is calculated by dividing the sum of the scores within the span by the span in days.
For the short-acting opioids, label instructions might not be indicative of the actual daily doses because patients are likely to use the drugs “when required”,
e.g. Take two capsules four times a day when required. Therefore, a 30-day supply is assumed and the average oMEDD score is derived from the total mg
dispensed divided by 30 days.
Sum all the average oMEDD scores from all SKUs.
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STEP 3: ANALYSIS
oMEDD LRx vs oMEDD Emyria
3000
oMEDD LRx
2250
Correlation
coefficient = 0.76
1500
750
0
0
250
500
750
1000
oMEDD Emyria
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EARLY RESULTS - significant decrease in oMEDD
Average oMEDD scores by oMEDD category (Pre vs Post)
< 40
> 90 *
40 - 90
Patients with 6+ months of cannabinoid usage
260
260
Prior care
240
220
220
200
200
180
180
160
160
140
140
120
120
100
100
80
80
60
60
40
40
20
20
0
-12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0
1
2
3
Months since rst visit
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12
0
Prior care
-12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12
Months since rst visit
* The oMEDD category is derived from the average oMEDD score over a 1-year period prior to the first visit.
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fi
oMEDD score
240
Patients with <6 months of cannabinoid usage
Commentary
+ Take-Aways
• Emyria’s personalised care model appears effective
• INVEST IN DATA
• People
• Technology
• Data governance
• Emyria patients reduce opioid use against background
of improving symptoms and Quality of Life (“QoL”)
measures and this is sustained beyond 6 months
• Emyria’s data has high validity
• Demonstrated ability to link Emyria’s data to thirdparty sources securely to support robust analysis
• Implications for future research, treatment and care
model innovation
• WORK WITH PARTNERS
• IQVIA + NostraData
• SCALE CARE MODEL
• Approach payers
• Continue to refine
models to maximise
benefit
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What’s possible with research-grade data and what’s next?
• Produce deeper analysis + publications
• Cost and service utilisation analysis
• Peer-reviewed publications
• ENGAGED UWA
• Create data-backed assets
• Emyria will launch new Rx programs
Prof. David Preen - Chair of Public Health at UWA
- working on a coordinated research program to
accelerate the development and translation of
evidence about real-world medicine use and
outcomes to improve the quality use of medicines
and reductions in medicine-related harm.
• Emyria is building clinical decision support tools
• Develop innovative care models
• Emyria to approach payers and insurers to present findings of model of care
• Continuous refinement of care models to maximise benefit
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