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.
Spotlight on OHE: Making Health Care Choices and Decisions
7 January 2013
OHE’s research and consulting captures a range of key issues that affect how health care systems are organised and how decisions are made within them. For…
What constitutes credible evidence of effectiveness
1 June 2013
In this monograph based his remarks at the 19th OHE Annual Lecture, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins examines the standards of proof required to show the effectiveness…
Spotlight on OHE: Value Based Pricing and New Technologies
31 December 2012
The OHE has been very active in conceptualising approaches incorporating a broader assessment of the elements of value (often called “value based pricing” or “VBP”), as…
Spotlight on OHE: Measurement and Valuation of Health Using PROMs
20 December 2012
The OHE continues to play a central role in the development and use of patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs). The last quarter of 2012 was characteristically busy.
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…