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.
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…
Update: Value-Based Pricing in the UK
11 January 2011
Value-based pricing for new medicines, proposed as part of UK health care reform, would create a QALY-plus approach for drugs approved starting 1 January 2014. For…
Is the Aim of the Health Care System to Maximise QALYs? An Investigation of
1 May 2011
The appraisal of health care technologies by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellent (NICE) focuses on cost effectiveness, usually measured in terms of…
Measuring Value: OHE at ISPOR
4 January 2011
Members of the OHE team participated in a number of sessions at ISPOR’s 13th Annual European Congress in November. This post summarizes the contributions of Prof…