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The Importance of Diversity of Supply in Rare Diseases Markets

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The development of innovative health technologies is essential for improving the quality and efficiency of health care provision. The marketing of innovative medicines, diagnostics and other medical technologies is required to address public health priorities and to tackle patients’ unmet medical needs, while expediting patients’ access to innovation helps to maximise societal health gains and value.
However, the production of medical innovation involves a lengthy, costly, risky and scientifically challenging R&D process. Innovators carry out huge investments where the expected return is highly uncertain as projects may fail, either because they do not provide enough value or because patients cannot access the treatments due to systems being unable to afford the price.
OHE leads a wide-ranging programme of research on how to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of R&D. Aimed at promoting innovation in health care, this theme addresses questions such as:
Key objective for this research theme:
OHE’s policy positions:
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