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OHE at the 2019 Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) Conference
5 June 2019
…of accountability in healthcare. Bernarda Zamora, Maria Errea, Marina Rodes Sanchez, and Patricia Cubí-Mollá will all be attending the conference, presenting work from OHE’s ongoing research studies. Prescribed Specialised Services…
OHE at the 2019 Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting
7 June 2019
…are important for ensuring sustainable healthcare infrastructures, but represent a neglected area in HTA due to various methodological issues and complex design that frequently goes beyond clinically oriented interventions. This…
OHE has an Opening for an Industrial Economist
20 November 2019
The Office of Health Economics wishes to recruit a well-qualified, highly motivated and energetic economist with an industrial organisation background applied to the health care sector, health care systems and/or…
Funding Challenges in the Malaysian Health Care System
7 January 2020
…used in Malaysia to provide evidence to support an efficient healthcare system. He concluded that: digital health offers great opportunity for efficiency improvements and better health outcomes; the data captured can be used to generate evidence on the performance…
Unpacking the Black Box of Payer Policy: A Demand-Side Approach for Equitable Uptake of Cost-Effective Health Innovation
21 February 2020
…scarce MLIC domestic healthcare dollars in high-cost, hospital based high-tech innovation, despite weak systems and professional skills MLICs continuing to pay high prices even for commoditised products. The authors propose establishing an Innovation Uptake Institute (IUI) to serve…
Augmenting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Uncertainty: The Implications for Value Assessment—Rationale and Empirical Support
14 April 2020
…systems and from the availability of treatments. These are over and above any value to the health system from decision makers having greater certainty about the benefits and costs of…
The Digitalisation of Health Care During COVID-19: Consideration of the Long-Term Consequences
28 April 2020
…the spread of the virus. While visiting the doctor is technically permitted under these rules, overstretched health systems, along with the need to minimise risk of contagion, means that gaining…
Are Discount Rates Used in UK Vaccine Economic Evaluations Jeopardising Investment in Immunisation Programmes?
4 August 2020
…Internationally, policymakers and academics have long debated discounting in the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions in general (Brouwer et al., 2005; Claxton et al., 2011)and vaccines specifically (Tasset et al.,…
Assessing the Productivity Value of Vaccines in Health Technology Assessment: Worth a Shot?
17 September 2020
…the methods used by NICE to assess non-vaccine health interventions. Based on the current approach, the objective of healthcare decision makers is to maximise the amount of health in the…