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: Operationalising Value Based Pricing
11 August 2011
To date, the UK Government has not been specific about how VBP will be implemented, but has indicated that calculations of value will extend beyond the…
Does Relative Effectiveness Vary Across Europe?
9 August 2011
At the Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) conference in May 2011, OHE’s Ruth Puig Peiró discussed a recent OHE study that reviewed the available literature on…
Previews of Forthcoming Publications
27 July 2011
OHE is making available as Occasional Papers drafts of two important chapters that will appear in the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry…
Join us for the 2011 Annual Lecture
19 July 2011
The 2011 OHE Annual Lecture — Cost per QALY in the U.S. and Britain: Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don’t? — will be…
Measuring Value with Pharmacoeconomics
26 May 2011
In forthcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, experts in the field outline the evolution of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) through…
QALYs v. Other Criteria in NHS Decisions
17 May 2011
Just released is an OHE Research Paper that examines whether and how decisions about allocating resources for health care differ across the NHS and, particularly, in…
Incorporating Multiple Criteria in HTA
19 April 2011
This OHE publication is intended to inform and stimulate debate about the way different sorts of evidence and considerations are taken into account in decisions about…
The Spanish Medicines Market Today
9 February 2011
Spending by Spain’s National Health Service (NHS) on pharmaceuticals was €12.1 billion in 2010. Its market for prescription medicines is among the slowest growing in Europe,…
Comparing Variants of Lead and Lag Time TTO
1 February 2011
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in…