Foundation of HTA, economic evaluation and value-based healthcare

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.

• 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.