Search results for: Health Care Systems

OHE at ISPOR Europe 2016: Risk-sharing, Differential Pricing, the Cancer Drugs Fund, and Patient Reported Outcomes

26 October 2016

…Hughes (Avalere Health LLC). Panellists: Adrian Towse (OHE), Sachin Kamal-Bahl (Pfizer), Alastair Kent (Genetic Alliance UK). Maintaining patient focus in healthcare decision-making is a universally-accepted approach to ensuring positive outcomes….

The Economic Impact of Medicines

9 January 1990

The objective of medical care is to improve people’s health. This includes avoiding illness whenever possible, alleviating suffering and disability when illness does occur, and prolonging life, particularly through the…

OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Health Years in Total (HYT): A New Health Objective Function for Cost-effectiveness Analysis

20 June 2019

…public decision making on health care (e.g.  Medicare). Alternatives to the QALY (such as Equal Value of Life, EVL) have not gained traction as their use raises other efficiency issues….

New NICE Manual for Health Technology Evaluations: A Critical Discussion on the Most Relevant Changes (or Lack Thereof)

23 February 2022

…Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) health technology evaluation manual To Hell with the 3L! NICE’s Missed Opportunity to Upgrade Health Outcome Measurement Including Carer Quality of Life in…

Exploring Variations in the Opportunity Cost Cost-effectiveness Threshold by Clinical Area: Results from a Feasibility Study in England

20 March 2019

…DEA was applied to health outcomes and health expenditure data from 151 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) (now Clinical Commissioning Groups) in England across seven clinical areas termed Programme Budget Categories…

Exploring Variations in the Opportunity Cost Cost-effectiveness Threshold by Clinical Area: Results from a Feasibility Study in England

1 March 2019

…and mortality. DEA was applied to health outcomes and health expenditure data from 151 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) (now Clinical Commissioning Groups) in England across seven clinical areas termed Programme…

OHE’s Director of Research, Professor Nancy Devlin, to Take up New Role at the University of Melbourne

19 September 2018

…and Director of the Centre of Health Policy in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. The Centre of Health Policy comprises research units in Demography and Ageing; Evaluation…

Critical Review of the Quality and Competition Measures and Identification Strategies Used in Health Care Studies

1 December 2011

Prepared as background for the OHE Commission on Competition, this paper provides an overview of the published literature detailing the links between quality and competition in health care systems. It…

Educational programmes

…willingness‑to‑pay, and the implications for decision‑making across healthcare systems. During the three-hour masterclass you will learn to: trace the theoretical foundations and historical development of thresholds, compare approaches across HTA…