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At York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), we have a team of over 70 multidisciplinary experts specialising in a range of health economics topics. Our blogs provide a platform for our team to share their expert insights on a range of topics, including relevant matters relating to recent advances in technology or changes to policy and practice in health economics and related fields.
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Patient-Reported Outcomes and Rare Diseases: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Project Director, YHEC
Drug development and market access is often challenging for rare disease therapies. There are numerous obstacles in the field, such as small and diverse patient populations, which means there is often limited evidence available. YHEC's Andria Joseph explores some of the challenges in rare diseases, specifically relating to patient-reported outcomes, and provides potential solutions for overcoming these.
Senior Information Specialist, YHEC
Interested to find out more about what it's like to work at YHEC? Or maybe you have an interest in the information field and are wondering what a career in this area is like? In this blog we interview Mick Arber, a Senior Information Specialist at YHEC. We find out how he got into this role, what his day-to-day work looks like, and what he enjoys most about being part of YHEC.
Putting Health Equity and Economic Evaluation Hand in Hand: Possible or Impossible?
Insights from YHEC's Robert Malcolm
Project Director, YHEC
Reducing health inequity is a challenging global issue. The impact of new health technologies on health equity should be considered during the health technology assessment process in a range of countries. Countries and their respective HTA processes differ in how much emphasis they place on equity. Even when equity is a formal consideration, guidance on how to operationalise it is often limited. Moreover, political change can significantly affect how equity is prioritised. For example, the Health Equity Advisory Committee at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the US, which aimed to identify and reduce systemic barriers that people may encounter when trying to access government healthcare programs, was recently forced to disband. In this blog, YHEC’s Robert Malcolm shares his insights on the importance of incorporating health equity into economic evaluation, how we can do this, and what he hopes to see in the future in this area.
Driving healthcare innovation: An example of YHEC’s work with the NHS Innovation Accelerator scheme
Insights from YHEC's Jo Hanlon
Project Director, YHEC
YHEC tackles a wide range of projects, from complex challenges to practical, real-world solutions. One such example is our collaboration with the NHS Innovation Accelerator scheme. In this blog, we speak with Jo Hanlon, Project Director at YHEC, who recently co-authored a peer-reviewed publication on the economic impact of a wearable device for diagnosing sleep apnoea, highlighting how our work supports the assessment of healthcare innovation and practical healthcare improvements.
How Can HTA Shape a More Sustainable Future for Healthcare?
Insights from YHEC's Melissa Pegg
Senior Research Consultant, YHEC
YHEC is pioneering new methods and approaches for incorporating and evaluating the environmental sustainability of healthcare interventions. This is especially important given the current uncertainties around trade tariffs affecting international medical supply chains and environmental protections being rolled back in the US. YHEC Senior Research Consultant, Melissa Pegg, is the inaugural chair of the new Environmental Sustainability in Health Technology Assessment (ESHTA) Working Group. She gives us some background to ESHTA, the importance of the group’s work, and her hopes for how the group might provide expert guidance and insight for health technology assessment in the future.
Senior Statistician, YHEC
Interested to find out more about what it's like to work at YHEC? Or maybe you have an interest in statistics and are wondering what a career in this field is like? In this blog we interview Erin Barker, a Senior Statistician at YHEC. We find out how she got into this role, what her day-to-day work looks like, and what she enjoys most about being part of YHEC.
How Can We Evaluate Virtual Wards in the NHS?
Insights from YHEC's Nick Hex
Associate Director, YHEC
Virtual wards, where patients can receive hospital-level acute care in a home setting, are becoming increasingly prevalent in the NHS. Join us as we interview Nick Hex, YHEC Associate Director, about why virtual wards are important and how they can be evaluated in the NHS.
Using ChatGPT for Systematic Review Searching - Problem or Panacea?
Insights from YHEC's Dr Anne Littlewood
Information Specialist, YHEC
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing in the life sciences, with an increasing number of studies investigating whether AI tools can be - and should be - used in healthcare research. Here, we interview YHEC's Dr Anne Littlewood, an Information Specialist who has been exploring the use of ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot, for conducting searches for systematic reviews.
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