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.
Rare Disease Day 2022
28 February 2022
World Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness of rare diseases and the impact they can have on patients. This blog explores OHE’s contributions to research…
New NICE Manual for Health Technology Evaluations: A Critical Discussion on the Most Relevant Changes (or Lack Thereof)
23 February 2022
OHE opens a series of blog posts on the NICE new health technology evaluation manual. The blogs will provide a critical discussion around the topics, including the…
Learnings from the Assessments of Entrectinib and Larotrectinib: Health Technology Assessment Challenges Associated with Tumour-Agnostic Therapies
1 January 2022
A paradigm shift is occurring in cancer care with the introduction of tumour-agnostic therapies, for which the indication is defined by the molecular signature of the…
Opportunity Cost in Health Care: a Favourite Research Topic for OHE
23 November 2021
OHE’s Chris Sampson is leading a new Research Topic published in Frontiers in Health Services, titled ‘Opportunity Costs in Health Care: Cost-effectiveness Thresholds and Beyond’. The…
Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
Our new paper explores the evidence currently being used to allocate budgets between public sector activities in the UK and its limitations. We argue that there…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Expert Elicitation: a Bridge Too Far?
29 April 2021
A team at the University of York recently published a study in which they sought to generate more reliable evidence to inform the estimation of marginal…
Reconciling MCDA and Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Do We Get the Same Decisions?
14 April 2021
A new paper explores the equivalence of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in adding elements of value to QALY-based cost-effectiveness decision making. It finds…
‘HispaNICE’: the Creation of an ‘Independent Authority for the Evaluation of Health Practices and Policies’ Gathers Momentum
24 February 2021
This blog summarises an initiative taken by more than 300 health economists and experts in support of the creation of an independent health technology assessment agency…
It Takes Two to Tango: When do Conditional Reimbursement Risk-Sharing Schemes Work for Both Parties?
1 December 2021
Faster regulatory approval has not necessarily achieved faster patient access. A new OHE paper sets out how risk-sharing can tackle this, enabling resolution of differences of…