Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine a health technology’s value for healthcare decision-making. Attitudes towards HTA vary globally, with some countries using a variety of methods and analyses and others hardly any.

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OHE Presents at Global AMR R&D Hub Board of Members Meeting in Paris

18 December 2019

OHE presented at the Global AMR R&D Hub Board of Members Meeting in Paris, on adapting HTA and payment mechanisms to incentivise new drugs to tackle…

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HTA and Payment Mechanisms for New Drugs to Tackle AMR

23 September 2019

A new OHE Research Paper summarises the findings of a project funded by the Wellcome Trust on innovative HTA methods and contracting for antibiotics. The paper…

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar: How Do We Measure the ‘Value’ in Value-based Care?

19 August 2019

OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Steve McKenna, 17th September 2019. The seminar will examine conceptual and practical aspects of measuring value in health care.

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Assessing the Life-cycle Value of Second-generation Antipsychotics in Sweden and the UK

17 July 2019

This research by a team of OHE and IHE researchers estimates the value added by second generation antipsychotics over their life-cycle in the UK and Sweden.…

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Health Years in Total (HYT): A New Health Objective Function for Cost-effectiveness Analysis

20 June 2019

OHE Lunchtime Seminar with Anirban Basu, 24th July 2019. The seminar will examine conceptual and theoretic arguments for use of HYT and illustrate their performance.

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OHE at the 2019 Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting

7 June 2019

Meet some of the OHE team at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) 2019 annual meeting in Cologne, 15-19 June.

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Can We Really Compare and Aggregate Patient-reported Outcomes Between People and Settings?

11 April 2019

A new OHE Research Paper considers whether we can compare and aggregate patient-reported outcome (PRO) data between people and settings. The paper is authored by Nancy…

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Quality of Life and Rare Disease: Lessons from Spinal Muscular Atrophy

2 April 2019

The measurement of quality of life in the context of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is challenging. This is because the disease is experienced by children and…

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Exploring Variations in the Opportunity Cost Cost-effectiveness Threshold by Clinical Area: Results from a Feasibility Study in England

20 March 2019

Estimating a cost-effectiveness threshold reflecting the opportunity cost of adopting a new technology in a health system is not easy. A new OHE report provides empirical…