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.
EuroQol Group to Report Key EQ-5D Advances
10 June 2010
The EuroQol Group’s 27th Scientific Plenary will take place in mid-September. Researchers will report on several exciting developments in the EQ-5D, a measure of self-reported health…
HTAinSite: The NICE Decision Database
18 May 2010
HTAinSite is a unique resource that enables subscribers to quickly find relevant information on NICE technology appraisal (TA) decisions and the evidence used to support them.…
Workshop on HTA and Regulatory Review
13 May 2010
Tensions between broad access to new medical technologies and efforts to contain health care costs are perennial. In recent years, this has become evident in the…
Time Trade Off and Valuing Quality of Life
28 April 2010
In an article in Health Economics, Prof Devlin and her co-authors demonstrate the promise of using Lead Time TTO to value health ‘state worse than death’.…
OHE Awarded DH Grant for EQ-5D Research
13 April 2010
The OHE has won a £325,000 grant from the UK Department of Health that focuses on developing a new health status index – the 5 level…
Evaluating Medical Innovation: The Societal View
8 April 2010
In a recent OHE Briefing, five leading European experts in health economics provide a comprehensive international review of changes in health economic evaluation and the reasons…
Deliberative Processes in Decisions about Health Care Technologies
1 June 2009
In the UK and elsewhere, choices about how to allocate health care resources are guided not only by economic calculations, but also by social value judgments…
American Exceptionalism and American Health Care: Implications for the US Debate on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
1 March 2009
Coined by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville in the early nineteenth century, the term ’American exceptionalism’ refers to the idea that the US is different…
The Impact of Health Technology Assessment on Drug Development
3 January 2009
Health technology assessment (HTA) has become a critical basis for pricing and reimbursement decision-making worldwide. In some countries, extensive requirements for data are set out in…