Search results for: Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

Sustainability

…optimal expense, guiding decision-making toward cost-effective measures, crucial for system sustainability. Moreover, health economics significantly contributes to Health Technology Assessment (HTA) by evaluating new healthcare innovations’ clinical and economic impact….

Around the world in HTAs: Argentina – Long Road to Institutionalizing HTA

9 June 2025

…Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and a recently announced national HTA agency. A Roadmap for New Technologies Argentina has a long-standing tradition in HTA. As early as the 1990s, a group…

OHE’s submission for the DHSC’s next 10 years of planning

9 December 2024

…these wider issues requires: multi-stakeholder, cross-government approach, and; incorporating patient voices in health technology assessment (HTA), which we’ve found has wide-ranging benefits on patients, industry, and HTA decision makers; an…

Impact

…Assessment (HTA) Bodies: HTA agencies assess the value of medical technologies (drugs, devices, diagnostics). Health economists contribute to these assessments by evaluating clinical outcomes, costs, and patient preferences. HTA findings…

An eye on sustainability at the Economist’s Future of Health Europe

30 October 2023

The Future of Health Europe 2023 convened public, private, and civil sectors across health and technology in a two-day summit held at the Royal College of Physicians. One of four…

Looking Further Afield – What Can Health Economics Learn from the Environmental Economics Approach to Discounting?

1 February 2024

…compounding. Discounting applies when considering future costs and benefits across a range of sectors, such as during health technology assessment (HTA) or when evaluating environmental policies. The impact of discounting…

Around the World in HTAs: Canada – Autonomous yet Collaborative

9 April 2025

…technology assessment (HTA). The evolution of HTA in Canada All provinces except Quebec collaborated in the establishment of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) in 1989, one…

Let’s talk about (health) inequalities

1 April 2022

…a proposal to consider health inequalities (HI) more explicitly in their Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. This proposal is part of a larger commitment to put an increased focus on…

Assessing the Productivity Value of Vaccines in Health Technology Assessment: Worth a Shot?

17 September 2020

…potentially show added value? The results show that the vaccines analysed might potentially generate substantial value on elements that are not typically assessed as part of health technology assessment (HTA)…