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.
New Research by OHE and University of Glasgow on cost of QALYs in Scotland
17 December 2012
New health care technologies often improve health but also increase costs. Judging whether they are good value for money involves comparing what QALYs are gained from…
New Findings: Public Attitudes Towards End-of-Life Treatment in England and Wales
7 December 2012
In 2009, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice that its Appraisal Committees are to consider when assessing treatments that…
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: 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…
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…
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…
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.
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)…
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…