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.

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News

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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OHE Occasional Paper Critiques the Claxton et al. £13,000 per QALY Estimate

24 February 2015

OHE has published an Occasional Paper highlighting the significant shortage of data that forced Claxton et al. to rely on a large number of strong assumptions…

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Spotlight on OHE: Opportunity Costs of NICE Decisions in Wales and HESG 2015

20 January 2015

Jon Sussex presents on the opportunity costs of implementing NICE decisions in Wales, and OHE attend HESG in Leeds, January 2015.

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Cost-per-QALY in the US and Britain: Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t

1 December 2015

Professor Weinstein presents a comprehensive analysis of the differences in attitudes between the US and the UK around how cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) fits into the health…