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.
Caring about Carers: Improving Consideration of the Burden of Informal Caring in HTA
11 April 2023
Through a three-part webinar series, commissioned and funded by Roche, OHE has explored the burdens on informal carers when providing unpaid care for loved ones.
Around The World in HTAs: Spain – Are We There Yet?
15 March 2023
In this Insights series, Around the World in HTAs, we shed light on HTA around the world. In this edition, Laura Vallejo-Torres, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Patricia Cubi-Molla, OHE, take us to Spain.
Informal Caring Burden in HTA Series: Webinar 3 – Capturing carer burden in HTA: what is the future?
2 March 2023
In this three-part webinar series, commissioned and funded by Roche, we explore the incorporation of informal care in HTA.
Informal Caring Burden in HTA Series: Webinar 2 – How is carer burden captured in HTA, and what are some of the existing challenges?
27 February 2023
In this three-part webinar series, commissioned and funded by Roche, we explore the incorporation of informal care in HTA.
Informal Caring Burden in HTA Series: Webinar 1 – What is carer burden and why is it important in HTA?
22 February 2023
In this three-part webinar series, commissioned and funded by Roche, we explore the incorporation of informal care in HTA.
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Gene Therapies for Inherited Eye Disease: Are Current Discounting Approaches Too Short-sighted?
15 February 2023
Gene therapies pose fresh challenges for discounting practice by HTA agencies. In this blog, we discuss why discounting is important for gene therapies, using a potential gene therapy for X-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa (XLRP) as an example.
ISPOR Europe Round-up: “Gene Therapies: Where High Promise Meets High Uncertainty, How Should HTA Methodologies Appropriately Value and Enable Access?”
8 December 2022
OHE, in collaboration with Pfizer, hosted an educational symposium entitled “Gene Therapies: Where High Promise Meets High Uncertainty, How Should HTA methodologies Appropriately Value and Enable Access?”.
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.…