2025 September - 15 articles
4 September 2025
Introduction: Market access, pricing, and reimbursement of digital health technologies (DHTs) in Europe are significantly challenged by regulatory fragmentation and various assessment methodologies. Understanding the challenges and priorities of tech...
4 September 2025
Pharmacy technicians (PT) are vital to the efficient and safe operation of hospital pharmacy services, fulfilling a range of technical and clinical responsibilities that directly impact patient care. However, increasing healthcare demands have unders...
2 September 2025
Designing an accessible, financially viable healthcare system is a key challenge for society. The value-based healthcare (VBHC) strategic model aims to simultaneously improve the quality of healthcare and the efficiency of health systems. The aim of...
Background: Expected utility has been deployed in order to predict health behaviour in health economic evaluation. However, only limited variance in health behaviour is explained by this construct. This limited explained variance is often attributed...
Gene therapies that induce the body to produce therapeutic anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) proteins are an emerging topic related to neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). Continuous delivery of anti-VEGF protein dir...
Background: With the ongoing development of game-changing technologies, assessing healthcare provider burden is desirable. This requires developing and evaluating subjective outcome measures, but there is no single scale that measures this burden. We...
Our objective is to describe the experience and challenges of using Managed Entry Agreements (MEAs) in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. We conducted online interviews with key decision-makers in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia between March 2021 and Dece...
Introduction and Objectives: Risk-sharing agreements (RSAs) have emerged as a key strategy for financing high-cost medical technologies while ensuring financial sustainability. These payment mechanisms mitigate clinical and financial uncertainties, o...
Patient involvement in health technology assessment (HTA) processes is increasingly recognized as pivotal for informed, equitable, and patient-relevant health care decision-making. With the implementation of Joint Scientific Consultations (JSCs) and...
The designs of clinical trials of drugs for rare diseases are challenged by health technology assessment organisations and payers. Phase II pivotal studies, single-arm or open-label designs, the extensive use of non-final endpoints, and the limited u...
The continued migration of physicians from independent practice to affiliation with larger entities has garnered significant scrutiny. These affiliation models include hospitals and health systems, payers and corporate entities, and management servic...
The European Health Technology Assessment (HTA) regulation (HTAR) came into effect in January 2025 and impacts the HTA process in all European Member States. Member States must give due consideration to the joint clinical assessment (JCA) report. Thi...
In respiratory patients, limited adherence to and misuse of devices hinder the effectiveness of inhalation therapy. Switching inhalers for non-clinical reasons poses a risk of deterioration of respiratory disease and/or promotes poor adherence to the...
This review of the scope of the European Health Technology Assessment (EU HTA)’s guidance on clinical trial validity in its randomized controlled trials (RCTs) highlights several key issues that undermine its practical application and effective...
With the European Union (EU) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) regulation, Joint Clinical Assessments (JCA) are now required for oncological and advanced therapy medicinal products. The JCA assessment scope is determined through the PICO framework (...
