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.
Government and Charity Funding of Cancer Research: Public Preferences and Choices
13 October 2015
How might a change in government spending on cancer research affect the public’s willingness to donate to cancer research charities?
Recently Published: Local Health Care Expenditure Plans and their Opportunity Costs
8 September 2015
Recently published in Health Policy is an article by Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer, Jon Sussex, Nancy Devlin and Andrew Walker entitled “Local health care expenditure plans and…
Recently Published: Payer Perspectives on Future Acceptability of Comparative Effectiveness and Relative Effectiveness Research
18 August 2015
This paper examines the views of US and European payers on the rapidly evolving fields of comparative effectiveness and relative effectiveness research.
An Issues Panel: Developing Cost Effectiveness for Decision Making: What can be Learnt from “Value Based Pricing”?
29 July 2015
This post reports on an Issues Panel which was held at the Spanish Health Economics Association Annual Conference which took place in Granada, Spain 17-19 June…
OHE at HTAi Oslo: A New Drug Development Paradigm, and the Effect of NICE Decisions Abroad
19 June 2015
This post summarises OHE’s activities at this year HTAi meeting in Oslo, June 2015. Topics include the effect of NICE decisions abroad and a new drug…
OHE at HTAi Oslo: A New Drug Development Paradigm, a Framework for Developing Formularies in MICs, and the Effect of NICE Decisions Abroad
15 June 2015
This post summarises OHE’s activities at the upcoming HTAi meeting in Oslo, June 2015. Topics include the effect of NICE decisions abroad, a framework for developing…
2015 OHE Annual Lecture: Regulation, Reimbursement, and Evidence on New Medical Technologies: Experiences and Future Directions in the United States
10 June 2015
Register for the 2015 OHE Annual Lecture. Dr Mark McClellan will present on 6 July on the topic of Regulation, Reimbursement, and Evidence on New Medical…
OHE at ISPOR Philadelphia Part 1: MCDA, Utility Functions and Big Data
7 May 2015
This post is the first of a two part summary of OHE’s scheduled activity at ISPOR Philadelphia 2015.
Do Respondents Completing Abstract, Hypothetical Priority-Setting Exercises Agree with the Policy Implications of Their Choices?
3 March 2015
A new OHE Consulting Report examines whether respondents completing abstract, hypothetical priority-setting exercises in stated preference studies agree with the policy implications of their choices.