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.
OHE at iHEA Boston 2017: Meet the Team
5 July 2017
The 2017 iHEA congress will be held in Boston, 7th-11th July 2017. Members of the OHE team will be attending and participating in the conference, and…
OHE at ISPOR Boston 2017: Presentations and Posters
4 July 2017
A selection of the posters and presentations delivered by OHE at the ISPOR 22nd Annual International Meeting in Boston, May 2017, are available below. Adrian Towse…
Adaptation to Health States: Sick Yet Better Off?
21 June 2017
OHE’s Patricia Cubi-Molla, joint with Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Victoria Serra-Sastre from City, University of London, have a new paper that examines adaptation to health states using…
OHE at HTAi 2017: Meet the Team
13 June 2017
The HTAi Annual Meeting 2017 will be held in Rome, Italy, 17-21st June 2017. The theme of the meeting is Towards an HTA Ecosystem: From Local…
Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to Support Healthcare Decisions: Opportunities, Challenges and Unresolved Questions
18 May 2017
Just published is a new book entitled “Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to Support Healthcare Decisions”. It features a chapter by OHE’s Martina Garau and Professor Nancy…
Is There Societal Support for an End of Life Premium?
8 May 2017
OHE’s Koonal Shah gave a presentation on the evidence of societal support for an end of life premium at the Pharmaccess Leaders Forum in Milan on…
HTAi Asia Policy Forum Briefing Papers: Value and Affordability, Transferability, and Delivery of High Quality HTA for Decision Making
2 May 2017
The fourth annual meeting of the HTAi Asia Policy Forum was held in November 2016. OHE produced Background Briefing Papers for each of these four meetings…
Do People of Different Ages Value Health Differently?
18 April 2017
A new OHE Research Paper entitled “Age and Utilities: Issues for HTA” is available to download.
New Paper in Quality of Life Research – Can Patients’ Self-Reported Pain be Compared and Aggregated in Multi-Country Studies?
30 March 2017
OHE’s Yan Feng, Mike Herdman, David Parkin and Nancy Devlin have a new paper in Quality of Life Research to exploring whether patients’ self-reported pain can…