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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EQ-VAS an Important and Under-used Element of the EQ-5D

17 December 2014

On 18th November 2014 OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin presented at the King’s Fund Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) research conference. Nancy’s presentation focused on the role of…

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Just Published: Empirical Study Examining Public Preferences Regarding End of Life Treatments

24 November 2014

Just published in Social Science & Medicine [open access] is a social preference study by OHE’s Koonal Shah and the University of Sheffield’s Aki Tsuchiya and Allan…

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OHE at ISPOR Europe: Presentations

19 November 2014

The OHE gave the following presentations at ISPOR 17th Annual European Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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OHE at ISPOR Europe: Posters

13 November 2014

The OHE presented the following posters at ISPOR 17th Annual European Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Spotlight on OHE: Adaptive Pathways, Economic Evaluation, Stated Preferences and Life-cycle Price Modelling

5 November 2014

Medicines Adaptive Pathways: A Practical Strategy to Improve Patient Access to Medicines?   In September 2014 the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science held a workshop…

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OHE at ISPOR Europe 2: Conceptual and Practical Challenges in Judging Value

29 October 2014

ISPOR’s 17th Annual European Congress is scheduled for 8-12 November 2014 in Amsterdam. This is the second of two blog posts that outlines OHE’s involvement. (The…

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OHE at ISPOR Europe 1: Impact of NICE on Innovation and Value

22 October 2014

ISPOR’s 17th Annual European Congress is scheduled for 8-12 November 2014 in Amsterdam. OHE’s Adrian Towse is current President of ISPOR and involved in several sessions.…

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Towse at ISPOR: Macro HTA and Managed Entry Agreements

7 October 2014

Adrian Towse, currently President of ISPOR, contributed to two session at the recent ISPOR Asia-Pacific conference. Using HTA to maximise health system performance: Health technology assessment…

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Bengt Jönsson Honoured for Contribution to Health Economics

6 August 2014

Launched at a seminar in his honour May 2014, Portrait of a Health Economist: Essays by Colleagues and Friends of Bengt Jönsson is an impressive collection…