Course Overview:
The healthcare reform and rising costs are driving demand for resources that better inform healthcare decisions. Pharmacoeconomics represents an interdisciplinary set of tools and concepts for assessing the value of everyday decisions made in healthcare settings. This certified course will explore the current state-of-the-art in the economic evaluation of healthcare technologies—specifically cost-effectiveness analysis of pharmaceuticals. It provides you with a comprehensive set of theories, tools, and analytic approaches to understand healthcare markets and systems. Learn how to apply Pharmacoeconomics principles to healthcare practices and policies. Moreover, illustrate different methods for pharmacoeconomic evaluation in healthcare, economic modelling, preference-based measures of health-related quality of life, and the development of coverage and reimbursement policies using cost-effectiveness data. A practical hands-on workshop on different modelling approaches for health technology assessment will be carried on.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Characterize the organization, structure, processes, and conduct of health technology assessment.
- Understand the role of economic evaluation in healthcare decision-making and health policy.
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the different methods for economic evaluation in healthcare.
- Evaluate approaches to preference-based measures of patient quality of life.
- Understand cost and outcomes modelling techniques for economic evaluation.
- Create a decision analysis model using spreadsheet software.
- Critically evaluate cost-effectiveness studies and develop effective presentations of economic evaluations.
- Understand the application and design issues of budget impact analysis.
- Evaluate the role of thresholds, decision rules, and innovative financial access agreements by health technology assessment agencies in the current environment.
- Understand reference pricing and its implications.
Course Content:
- Principles of Pharmacoeconomics
- Methods for Cost Evaluation
- Types of Economic Evaluation in Healthcare
- Health-related Quality of Life and Preferences
- Framing Economic Evaluations and Decision Analysis
- Markov Models and Uncertainty Evaluation
- Budget Impact Analysis – A 6-Step Approach
- Innovative Market Access Agreement
- Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy
- Health Policy
Who can attend?
This program is designed to complement the healthcare professionals with the necessary skills to make decisions in:
- Hospitals, public and private health centers
- Public bodies responsible for managing and/or funding pharmaceuticals and health services
- Private health insurance companies
- Pharmaceutical companies and companies related to the distribution of medicines
- Consultancy and advisory firms related to the health sector
- Healthcare purchase or provider organizations
For inquiries and corporate deals, please send us an email on pda@ngu.edu.eg