Insights

ISPOR Europe Round-up: “Gene Therapies: Where High Promise Meets High Uncertainty, How Should HTA Methodologies Appropriately Value and Enable Access?”

8 December 2022

OHE, in collaboration with Pfizer, hosted an educational symposium entitled “Gene Therapies: Where High Promise Meets High Uncertainty, How Should HTA methodologies Appropriately Value and Enable Access?”.

The World Needs New Antibiotics. A Proposed US Program to Develop Them Offers a High Pay-Off

The World Needs New Antibiotics. A Proposed US Program to Develop Them Offers a High Pay-Off

16 November 2022

A Center for Global Development (CGD) paper authored by OHE’s Adrian Towse and CGD’s Rachel Silverman Bonnifield shows a very high expected return on investment (ROI)…

Improving the Measurement of Valued Output in Primary Care in England

1 August 2022

How can we identify efficiency variations across general practices and opportunities to improve their productivity if the measurement of output does not reflect the value produced?

Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

18 July 2022

A recent series of papers examines the effects of multiple primary health care interventions (introduction of health facility accreditation, introduction of user fees, and discontinuation of performance-based financing schemes) under Egypt’s Health Sector Reform Program between 2000 and 2014.

The Benefits of Early Engagement with Payers and Patient Representatives: The Case Study of a MoCA Pilot Project on ANCA-associated Vasculitis

30 June 2022

OHE and Vifor Pharma present a poster at the last European Conference on Rare Diseases (ECRD) on the Mechanism of Coordinated Access to orphan medicinal products…

The State of Play for Cost-effectiveness Thresholds

28 June 2022

In a new paper led by OHE, an international team of co-authors considers the evidence for supply-side cost-effectiveness thresholds, providing a set of recommendations for policymakers.…

The Dynamics of Drug Shortages

Estimating the Impact of U.S. Drug Price-setting Policies on Innovation Is Challenging, Even for the Congressional Budget Office

22 June 2022

Since the Office of Health Economics (OHE) published a critique of CBO’s new simulation model of new drug development late last year, the U.S. public sector…

ISPOR Issue Panel Roundup: Are Our HTA Methods Fit for Purpose for Gene Therapies?

6 June 2022

As part of OHE’s presence at ISPOR 2022 in Washington DC, we hosted an issue panel tackling the hot topic of health technology assessment (HTA) of…

Sleepio: Lessons from the Frontier of Digital Therapeutics

31 May 2022

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently issued its first guidance for a digital therapeutic. NICE recommends the use of Sleepio for treating…