Economics of Innovation

Optimal innovation balances willingness and ability to pay with the benefits of future R&D. Our wide-ranging programme aims to promote innovation in health care, increase our understanding of its value, and encourage R&D. New models of innovation should streamline development, reduce costs, and speed patient benefit.

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OHE Launches Discussion Paper and Consultation Exercise on Indication-based Pricing

10 May 2019

Increasingly, scientific advances are delivering new medicines that deliver improved survival and quality of life across multiple treatment indications. Indication-Based Pricing (IBP) has been proposed as…

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OHE at ISPOR 2019

8 May 2019

Meet some of the OHE team at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 2019 conference in New Orleans, 18-22 May.

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Is Rate Of Return Pricing A Useful Approach When Value-Based Pricing Is Not Appropriate?

22 March 2019

Value-based pricing (VBP) is an efficient method for pricing new drugs. Rate of return pricing could, however, be useful in two cases: treatments for ultra-rare diseases,…

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Abolishing Pharmaceutical Rebates in the US? Looking at the Trade-Offs

12 March 2019

The combination of rising drug costs in the US and increasing financial stress for individual patients has triggered intense national concern. One target has come under…

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The World Needs Better Drugs for TB. The Center for Global Development and OHE Have a Proposal and We Need your Feedback

5 March 2019

Innovation is a critical tool in the global fight against tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that primarily affects the poor and vulnerable and ranks among the…

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Data Governance Arrangements for Real-World Evidence in Japan

1 September 2019

In 2015, OHE Consulting published a report on data governance arrangements for real-world evidence (RWE) covering the specifics under which RWE was used in eight different…

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The Case of Risperidone: Assessing the Life-cycle Value of Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Sweden and the UK

1 July 2019

The present work aims to assess the life-cycle value of innovative medicines based on the example of Second-Generation Antipsychotics (SGA). Assessing the entire life-cycle of SGA,…

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Documento de debate sobre la fijación de precios en función de la indicación (IBP) ¿Deben variar los precios de los medicamentos según la indicación?

1 June 2019

Cada vez más, los avances científicos desarrollan nuevas medicinas que permiten mejoras en la supervivencia y calidad de vida para diversas indicaciones terapéuticas. La fijación de…

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Indication-Based Pricing (IBP) Discussion Paper: Should drug prices differ by indication?

1 May 2019

Increasingly, scientific advances are delivering new medicines that deliver improved survival and quality of life across multiple treatment indications. Indication-Based Pricing (IBP) has been proposed as…