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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A Critique of the Paper “The Estimated Costs of Production and Potential Prices for the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List”

1 May 2018

This OHE Consulting Report reviews “Estimated costs of production and potential prices of medicines for the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List” (Hill et al., 2018)…

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OHE at HESG Winter 2018

4 January 2018

A summary of OHE’s activity at the 2018 winter HESG meeting, City, University of London, 10-12th January.

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Appraising Ultra-Orphan Drugs: Is Cost-Per-QALY Appropriate? A Review of the Evidence

1 March 2018

The report addresses the implications of NICE appraising treatments for very rare diseases using a cost-per-QALY gained decision rule of the type used by NICE in…

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Challenges in Valuing Temporary Health States for Economic Evaluation: A Review of Empirical Applications of the Chained Time Trade-Off Method

26 December 2017

A new paper titled “Challenges in Valuing Temporary Health States for Economic Evaluation: A Review of Empirical Applications of the Chained Time Trade-Off Method” has been…

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Routine Funding in the UK NHS of Medicines Authorised Between 2011 and 2016 via the European Centralised Procedure

18 December 2017

This report analyses patient access in the UK to new medicines authorised via the centralised procedure between 2011 and 2016.

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Antimicrobials Resistance: A Call for Multi-disciplinary Action. How Can HTA Help? A Summary of a Symposium held at HTAi Rome 2017

31 October 2017

OHE has just published a new briefing entitled ‘Antimicrobials Resistance: A Call for Multi-disciplinary Action. How Can HTA Help?’

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar: How Cost-Effective are New Cancer Drugs in the U.S.?

2 August 2017

On Tuesday 19th September 2017, Professor Frank Lichtenberg from Columbia University will lead an OHE Lunchtime Seminar on the topic of: How cost-effective are new cancer…

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OHE at HTAi Rome

12 July 2017

The presentations delivered by OHE at the HTAi Annual Meeting, June 2017, are available in this post.

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Assessing Value, Budget Impact, and Affordability in Asia

10 July 2017

A new paper, Assessing Value, Budget Impact, and Affordability in Asia, has been published in the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. This paper…