Last month, members of our Health Technology Assessment Directorate attended the ISPOR Europe Conference.
ISPOR is the largest scientific society in the area of health technology assessment with over 14,000 members worldwide. HIQA plays an active role in ISPOR activities. Our Director of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Dr Máirín Ryan, has been appointed as a member of the ISPOR HTA Council and is Chair of the ISPOR HTA Roundtable Europe 2022 to 2024.
This year’s ISPOR Europe Conference took place in Copenhagen from 12 to 15 November, with over 5,000 conference attendees. Dr Máirín Ryan co-chaired the HTA Roundtable Europe session on advancing scientific methods in HTA. This brought together HTA bodies, national insurance organisations, the World Health Organization regional office, the European Commission, EUnetHTA, and academics from across Europe.
Elsewhere at the conference, our Chief Scientist Dr Conor Teljeur presented a poster on ‘An Overview of the Challenges in the HTA of Interventions involving healthcare reorganisation’.
Dr Kieran Walsh, our Deputy Director of HTA presented a poster on ‘Health Technology Assessment of Domiciliary Invasive Ventilation for Adults with Spinal Cord Injuries’; while Dr Susan Spillane, Deputy Director of HTA, presented a poster on ‘Systematic Review of the Cost Effectiveness of Newborn Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy’.
Susan Ahern, our Senior Health Economist, presented two posters at the event – one on ‘An Economic Evaluation of Universal Childhood Varicella Vaccination in Ireland’, and one on ‘How Many Simulations of a Dynamic Transmission Model are Enough to Estimate Uncertainty?’.
You can learn more about our work in this area at www.hiqa.ie