IntroductionEvaluation of the impact and added value of new technologies and interventions in healthcare is crucial to support decision-making for sustainable healthcare. However, this added value typically depends directly on how interventions are used: in which context, for which individuals, how frequent, for how long, and in which intensity. Consequently, evaluation of a single application is not sufficient to maximize the impact of interventions. Instead optimization should be applied to determine under which conditions, and for which application, interventions have maximum added value. While impact optimization can contribute to healthcare sustainability it will typically increase the complexity of HTA analyses. In this HTA symposium experts will illustrate opportunities and methods for, and challenges, of impact optimization, in case studies covering a wide range of research questions and disease domains. |
Program
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10:30 | 11:00 | Walk-in with coffee & tea | |
11:00 | 11:15 | Welcome and opening – Prof.dr. Erik Koffijberg | |
Session 1 | Chair - Dr. Michelle Kip | |
11:15 | 11:45 | Markov Decision Processes as a way to structure optimization problems in health economic decision making: a case study concerning treatment duration in depression
Talitha Feenstra, PhD - Associate professor, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen & Senior researcher RIVM, Bilthoven | |
11:45 | 12:15 | Optimizing cancer screening and surveillance: challenges in multi strategy comparisons
Prof. dr. Veerle Coupé - Professor of Medical Decision Making in Cancer Care and Prevention & Chair Decision Modeling Center, Dept. of Epidemiology & Data Science, Amsterdam UMC. | |
12:15 | 13:00 | Lunch break | |
Session 2 | Chair – Dr. Sopany Saing | |
13:00 | 13:30 | Exploratory, participatory and adaptive technology-specific modeling to inform optimal use of innovative medical technology
Janneke Grutters, PhD - Associate professor, department for Health Evidence, Radboud university medical center. | |
13:30 | 14:00 | Modelling treatment sequences in oncology: choices, challenges and opportunities
Hedwig Blommestein, PhD - Associate professor, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University. | |
14:00 | 14:15 | Coffee & Tea break | |
Session 3 | Chair – Dr. Xavier Pouwels | |
14:15 | 14:45 | Treating the right patient, at the right time, at the right location: Context dependent modeling of acute stroke in The Netherlands
Maarten M.H. Lahr, PhD - Senior Researcher, University Medical Center Groningen Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health. | |
14:45 | 15:15 | Cost-Effectiveness of Automated External Defibrillator Deployment using Optimization Algorithms
Robin Buter, MSc - PhD student, Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement & Research, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente. | |
15:15 | 15:25 | Closing - Dr. Xavier Pouwels | |
