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Measuring Value with Pharmacoeconomics
26 May 2011
…Medicaid programs, private insurers and health care providers, although its expansion under the 2010 health care law remains doubtful. Adrian Towse has collaborated with outside experts in preparing a chapter…
Health Care without Frontiers?
1 December 2000
…the experience of cross-border health care in the EU; and to set out some more speculative thoughts on how an internal EU market in health care delivery is likely to…
Health Care as a Handicraft Industry
9 January 1995
…greater efficiency will not fundamentally alter the relative productivity, and so cost, of health care. Society has to face up to the rising real costs of health care. Professor Baumol’s…
Moving the Needle on Value – OHE Launches Research on US Value-Based Healthcare
10 June 2019
…continue escalating. There is wide agreement that the growth in healthcare costs is unsustainable. Graham asked “how can we move the needle on value?” Value-based healthcare, in which healthcare is…
Valuing patient and carer time in HTA: equity and opportunity cost
15 May 2026
…carer time are inputs to healthcare just as much as physician and nursing time. As such, trade-offs between time and health are no different from trade-offs between money and health….
Comparative and Relative Effectiveness: A Challenge For Health Systems, Regulators, or Pharmaceutical Companies?
12 January 2014
…of medicines, and of health systems. To ensure value for money, understanding actual use of medicines in the health care system is an essential supplement to information from clinical trials….
Environmental sustainability in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: The need for green
29 September 2025
…crisis intensifies, the environmental sustainability and climate resilience of healthcare must be recognised as a core components of public health strategy – not peripheral concerns. The connection between health systems,…
Turning around the NHS: Reflections on the 2025 OHE Annual Lecture
14 October 2025
…rate of health spending. It’s therefore crucial that the health system takes a wider perspective of better health to better inform prevention investments – a healthier population delivers more than…
What Drives Variations in Relative Effectiveness Across Countries?
31 May 2016
…between populations and healthcare systems. Relative effectiveness is a key topic within health policy. In Europe, this is due to the need for early information to guide reimbursement and funding…