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.
The World Needs New Antibiotics. A Proposed US Program to Develop Them Offers a High Pay-Off
16 November 2022
A Center for Global Development (CGD) paper authored by OHE’s Adrian Towse and CGD’s Rachel Silverman Bonnifield shows a very high expected return on investment (ROI)…
The State of Play for Cost-effectiveness Thresholds
28 June 2022
In a new paper led by OHE, an international team of co-authors considers the evidence for supply-side cost-effectiveness thresholds, providing a set of recommendations for policymakers.…
ISPOR Issue Panel Roundup: Are Our HTA Methods Fit for Purpose for Gene Therapies?
6 June 2022
As part of OHE’s presence at ISPOR 2022 in Washington DC, we hosted an issue panel tackling the hot topic of health technology assessment (HTA) of…
Sleepio: Lessons from the Frontier of Digital Therapeutics
31 May 2022
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently issued its first guidance for a digital therapeutic. NICE recommends the use of Sleepio for treating…
Open Source Modelling: From Ideas to Action
16 May 2022
OHE’s Chris Sampson is currently Chair of the ISPOR Open Source Models Special Interest Group (SIG). The SIG recently published their first journal article in Value…
Let’s talk about (health) inequalities
1 April 2022
The NICE methods review consultation included a proposal to consider health inequalities more explicitly in their Health Technology Assessment process. But there is still a long…
Severity in Value Assessment: From Principle to Practice
24 March 2022
There is a wealth of evidence showing societal support to prioritise interventions for severe illnesses and a number of robust methods enabling to reflect this in…
NICE’s severity modifier: a step in the right direction, but still a long way to go
23 March 2022
This blog post is the fifth in a series on the new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) health technology evaluation manual. Each post…
The NICE Health Technology Evaluation Manual: A Fresh Perspective Needed?
16 March 2022
This blog post is the fourth in a series on the new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) health technology evaluation manual. Each post…