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.
Comparing Economic Appraisal Guides in England
10 August 2010
Debate continues about the methods that the UK’s NICE uses in its appraisals of medical technologies, including whether effects beyond the NHS should be considered using…
Limits to Using QALYs in Cancer
3 August 2010
QALY measures have become important tools in valuing health interventions so that resource allocations can be made. Current methods, however, may not adequately capture QALYs for…
Reminder: Willingness-to-Pay Seminar
5 July 2010
Willingness-to-Pay for a New Pharmaceutical: Is it Worth the Money? Whose Money? During this OHE Lunchtime Seminar, Prof Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, will discuss the findings…
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…