A practical guide into policies and techniques of value-based healthcare for companies, policymakers and healthcare professionals. By the end of the Program, you will learn the structure and phases of a health technology assessment process; you will be able to recognize the main economic assessments, and to decide which assessments are most appropriate for each decision-making issue. In addition, you will be able to distinguish good quality analyses and to interpret the correct messages, avoiding distortions in decisions.
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What you'll learn
The Program aims to provide basic knowledge of health technology assessment and the main techniques of economic evaluation in health. The main topics covered in the Program are:
- The structural gap between needs, opportunities, and resources
- The “value-based healthcare” approach: what is new?
- The HTA core model: a close-up look
- The dynamics of HTA (examples from NICE)
- Economic evaluations: an overview
- Cost-of-illness analysis
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- The evaluation of quality-of-life and the cost-utility analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Budget impact analysis
- Additional evaluations: patient preferences, organizational impact analysis
- Drugs and medical devices: the same or different?
- HTA and regulation: comparison between the US and Europe.