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.

The R&D Cost of a New Medicine
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OHE Study on Pharmaceutical R&D Costs Released

3 December 2012

How much it costs to research and develop a successful new medicine has been an important policy issue at least since the 1960s. Cost estimates matter…

Value Based Pricing in Sweden
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Value Based Pricing in Sweden: Lessons for Design?

28 November 2012

OHE has just published a Seminar Briefing by Ulf Persson, head of the Swedish Institute of Health Economics, which reviews experience with the Swedish value based…

Prof Tony Culyer
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Collected Essays by Tony Culyer on Health Economics

25 November 2012

Just released is a collection of essays by Prof Tony Culyer, a founding father of health economics whose life’s work has been to bring clarity to…

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Advances in Oncology Modelling: Recent Results from POI Research

18 September 2012

OHE and the Pharmaceutical Oncology Initiative (POI) held a workshop to discuss and debate several key issues in oncology modelling. Participating were more than 50 experts…

Garau presenting on stratified medicine
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Spotlight on OHE: Recent Awards, Publications and Presentations

12 September 2012

This post reviews selected external OHE activities and publications from the past three months.

Prof Nancy Devlin
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OHE Awarded £457K Grant on Measuring Public Preferences for Health States

2 August 2012

OHE’s Prof Nancy Devlin and Prof Ben van Hout of the University of Sheffield have been awarded a £457,000 grant from the Policy Research Programme (PRP)…

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Spotlight on OHE: Development and Use of Measures of Health Worldwide

16 July 2012

OHE team members have been active in a number of external seminars, conferences and workshops. These included gatherings of academic experts, discussions involving governments, and meetings…

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Prospective Observational Studies: Whether, When and How to Use

18 June 2012

OHE’s Adrian Towse is co-author on the recent report by the ISPOR Good Research Practices Task Force on assessing comparative effectiveness using prospective observational studies.

HTAinSite
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HTAinSite: Recent Changes in the Database of NICE Decisions

7 June 2012

HTAinSiteImagine being able to find, in ONE minute or less, which NICE Technology Assessments (TAs) make specific reference to QALY thresholds of £20,000 or £30,000, for…