2 days – 4 hours each
THE TOOLS:
- Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
- Health Outcome Studies
- Health Economic Models
- Real World Evidence (RWE)
At the end of this 2-days module, participants will
- Understand the present and future challenges for social health care systems
- Comprehend in detail the evolving burden of disease
- Have insights about current strategies to cope with rising costs in health care
- Understand the impact of data and evidence-based decision making for health care budgets
- Learn about options how to best prioritize spending in health care budgets
- Understand how payors will handle tradeoffs in health care spending
- Learn about the validity of various Health Outcomes studies and the appropriate scenarios to apply
- Get insight into the various kinds of study protocols and how to choose and apply
- Understand the opportunities and limits of Health Outcomes studies in view of the clinical and economic context
- Comprehend the need and value of health economic models and how to apply, read and analyze
- Comprehend the value and opportunity of RWE and how to use and synthetize them into the present bundle of available (conventional) data
- Get insight in future aspects of capturing health outcomes data
- Understand why HTA is a useful process and how it is applied in the context of patient access and health care budget considerations
- Learn about the concept, the basic principles and the formal process of a HTA
- Understand the various steps in the HTA process and the dependance on data availability and data integrity
- Learn how to read, analyze and interpret HTA results and findings