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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Event

OHE at ISPOR Europe 2018

7 November 2018

Meet some of the OHE team at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Europe 2018 conference in Barcelona, 10-14 November.

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News

OHE at the ISPOR Summit on New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare October, 2018

5 November 2018

OHE presented at the ISPOR Summit on New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare, held October 2018.

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News

New Publication: Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products and Health Technology Assessment

12 October 2018

A new publication in the European Journal of Health Economics identifies potential challenges of ATMPs in view of current health technology assessment (HTA) methodology and explores…

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News

OHE Lunchtime Seminars: Steven Pearson and Janel Hanmer

4 October 2018

OHE will be hosting two lunchtime seminars in October – one on the 22nd with Steven Pearson, ICER, and another on the 31st with Janel Hanmer,…

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Insights

MoCA Initiative and its Value Framework: An Opportunity to Improve Decision Making for Orphan Drugs in Europe?

18 September 2018

Orphan drugs inherently face a number of challenges in their development and value assessment. In this blog post, we describe the Mechanism of Coordinated Action (MoCA)…

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Progression-free Survival as a Surrogate Outcome for Overall Survival in Oncology

4 September 2018

When should progression-free survival be used as a surrogate for overall survival in oncology? Uneven reporting of results – different definitions and methods of analysis, lack of rigour in applying methodology – make progress difficult.

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Two New Papers on EQ-5D-5L Valuation in Ireland

21 August 2018

OHE’s Koonal Shah and Nancy Devlin are co-authors on two new papers focusing on the valuation of the EQ-5D-5L in Ireland.

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Insights

NICE Recommendation Highlights Role of Social Value Judgements

9 August 2018

This blog post discusses the role of social value judgements in NICE technology appraisals, focusing on the recent appraisal of dinutuximab beta for high-risk neuroblastoma. The…

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Opportunity Costs of New Health Care Technologies: A Research Agenda

8 August 2018

A new OHE Research Paper sets out an agenda for the development of methods to estimate cost-effectiveness thresholds in the NHS.