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What is the value of evaluating health technologies?

Alec Morton

Thursday 23 February 2023, 11.00AM to 12.00pm

Speaker(s): Alec Morton, University of Strathclyde

Abstract:

Many countries have adopted Health Technology Assessment (HTA), often including some form of cost-effectiveness analysis, as a way of prioritising investment in health technologies and identifying a high value and financially sustainable development path for their health systems.  But how should HTA institutions themselves be evaluated?  In this talk we take both qualitative and quantitative approaches to this question.  For the qualitative part, we report on a programme of interviews with senior figures in the international HTA community.  Our research highlights the importance of broadening out the evaluation framework from a narrow focus on whether HTA reports have been implemented to look at perceptions of and benefits to different system stakeholders, including providers, payers, patients and the public, Ministries of Health and Finance and the scientific community.  For the quantitative part of the talk, we describe a simulation model which can be used to quantify the benefits of implementing a cost-effectiveness decision rule to prioritise health technologies over a counterfactual scenario of no prioritization, with parameterisations based on datasets from the UK, Malawi and Thailand.  Our simulations show that while using cost effectiveness analysis may lead to lower costs or more health, or both, it can never lead to more cost and less health.  This work was funded by and in partnership with HITAP under the umbrella of the International Decision Support Initiative https://www.idsihealth.org/.

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https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96549364150?pwd=dXdpbm1PamprUHhuZE9kK3poL3J5UT09

Meeting ID: 965 4936 4150
Passcode: 689238

Location: Hybrid in Alcuin A Block A/019/20 and via Zoom (not recorded)

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Alfredo Palacios
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Shainur Premji
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