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An EU-wide approach to HTA: An irrelevant development or an opportunity not to be missed?

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  • Panos Kanavos

    (London School of Economics)

  • Aris Angelis

    (London School of Economics)

  • Michael Drummond

    (University of York)

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An EU-wide cooperation on HTA has been proposed recently by the European Commission, focusing on relative effectiveness assessment (REA) for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. This cooperation is operationalised through a proposal for a regulation. While a good step in the right direction, this HTA cooperation framework needs to be more explicit and pragmatic about clinical value definition, what constitutes quality of evidence, how real-world evidence is handled, whether the same assessment requirements will apply for medical devices as they do for pharmaceuticals, and how to safeguard consistency in REA interpretation. If demand-rather than supply-driven, this initiative can deliver wider benefits: Europe can improve its power in global drug design and development, while Member States will have at their disposal more resources to assess performance of interventions in their healthcare systems.

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  • Panos Kanavos & Aris Angelis & Michael Drummond, 2019. "An EU-wide approach to HTA: An irrelevant development or an opportunity not to be missed?," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 20(3), pages 329-332, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eujhec:v:20:y:2019:i:3:d:10.1007_s10198-019-01037-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10198-019-01037-2
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    1. Fontrier, Anna-Maria & Kamphuis, Bregtje W. & Kanavos, Panos, 2023. "How can health technology assessment be improved to optimise access to medicines? Results from a Delphi study in Europe," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120537, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Kanavos, Panos & Visintin, Erica & Gentilini, Arianna, 2023. "Algorithms and heuristics of health technology assessments: A retrospective analysis of factors associated with HTA outcomes for new drugs across seven OECD countries," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 331(C).
    3. Oriana Ciani & Bogdan Grigore & Rod S. Taylor, 2022. "Development of a framework and decision tool for the evaluation of health technologies based on surrogate endpoint evidence," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(S1), pages 44-72, September.
    4. Livio Garattini & Anna Padula, 2020. "HTA for pharmaceuticals in Europe: will the mountain deliver a mouse?," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 21(1), pages 1-5, February.

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