Value, Affordability, and Decision Making
Efficient decisions about allocating health care budgets require assessment of the effects of health care interventions and the value for money they provide. Decision-making processes leading to funding decisions should be structured and evidence-based.
Data Governance Arrangements for Real-World Evidence: South Korea
1 September 2017
In 2015, OHE published a report which set out the core principles that should govern how Real-World Data (RWD) is accessed or generated, and used credibly to generate Real-World Evidence (RWE), thereby working toward a set of “international standards”1.
Why Do Immigrants Report Lower Life Satisfaction?
1 July 2017
Questions of happiness and well-being have increasingly been drawing the attention of health economists, with the understanding that its measures approximate quality of life, or at…
New Publication: Assessing Evidence and Access Associated with NICE HTA Decisions Categorised as “Recommended in Line with Clinical Practice”
6 January 2017
A new OHE Research Paper assesses the nature of evidence used to reach HTA decisions which NICE have classified as “Recommended in Line with Clinical Practice”…
‘Macro’ Evaluation of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
1 May 2017
The Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) was established in April 2007. OHE and RAND Europe were commissioned by the Oxford BRC to undertake a programme of…
Age and Utilities: Issues for HTA
1 April 2017
Several studies have found differences in health state values by age. We investigate whether and how age affects respondents’ Time Trade-Off (TTO) and Visual Analogue Scale…
Assessing Value, Budget Impact and Affordability to Inform Discussions on Access and Reimbursement: Principles and Practice, with Special Reference to High Cost Technologies
1 April 2017
The 2016 meeting of the HTAi Asia Policy Forum meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur, 17th -18th November 2016. The topic of the meeting was: Assessing…
Transferability of HTA
4 January 2017
The second HTAi Asia Policy Forum meeting (2014) was held in Manilla, 10th -11th June 2014. The topic of the meeting was: Transferability of HTA. This…
HTA and Decision Making in Asia: How can the available resources be used most effectively to deliver high quality HTA that can be used by health system decision makers?
4 January 2017
The HTAi Asia Policy Forum meeting 2013 was held in Seoul, 13th -14th June 2013. This was the first of several annual meetings of the HTAi…
Gene Therapy: Understanding the Science, Assessing the Evidence, and Paying for Value
1 March 2017
This report presents an analysis of the significant clinical potential of gene therapy and the unique challenges in developing and evaluating evidence on their effectiveness and…