Research
Around The World in HTAs: The Slovak Republic – Valuing the Future
13 September 2023
In this Insights series, Around the World in HTAs, we shed light on HTA around the world. In this edition, Patricia Cubi-Molla & Jake Hitch, OHE, and Róbert Babeľa, Slovak Medical University, take us to the Slovak Republic.
NGS testing for lung cancer across Europe still limited, despite clear case for adoption
10 July 2023
Our new report contains a wealth of evidence for clinical value and cost-saving potential of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing in lung cancer, and recommends that increased uptake requires focus on reimbursement, national standardisation, and new infrastructure
Setting the Right Discount Rate for HTA in the Slovak Republic
21 May 2023
Health interventions such as new medicines produce costs and health-related effects not only in the year they are introduced but in all future years until they…
Improving the Measurement of Valued Output in Primary Care in England
1 August 2022
How can we identify efficiency variations across general practices and opportunities to improve their productivity if the measurement of output does not reflect the value produced?
OHE is Leading Research to Develop an EQ-5D ‘Bolt-on’ for Hearing
19 July 2022
OHE and the University of Technology Sydney are leading a study funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation to develop a ‘bolt-on’ descriptor for the EQ-5D. The…
Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18 July 2022
A recent series of papers examines the effects of multiple primary health care interventions (introduction of health facility accreditation, introduction of user fees, and discontinuation 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…
Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Discrete Choice Experiments
4 May 2022
A new publication co-authored by OHE’s David Mott provides an overview of the state of practice for accounting for preference heterogeneity in discrete choice experiments. The…