HPI4001 Economics of health care summary (year 2016/2017)

Define innovation

Antwoord: Innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas

Name the 4 steps of innovation

Antwoord: 1. Research and creativity 2. Invention 3. Design and development 4. Innovation

What are the 3 types of innovation (two possible answers)

Antwoord: 1. Product innovation 2. Process innovation 3. Organizational innovation Or 1. Incremental 2. Radical 3. Architectural

Define product innovation

Antwoord: Create a new or improved product for sale without a change in production process

What are 3 types of product innovations?

Antwoord: 1. Characteristics approach 2. Product proliferation 3. Innovative pricing

Define Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

Antwoord: Health technology assessment is a multidisciplinary process that summarizes information about the medical, social, economic and ethical issues related to the use of health technology in a systematic, transparent, unbiased, robust manner

What are two aims of health technology assessment (HTA)

Antwoord: 1. To inform decision making 2. To improve quality of care

Define economic evaluation

Antwoord: Economic evaluation is a branch of HTA, that compares two or more health technologies in terms of costs and effects.

What are the 3 steps of an economic evaluation?

Antwoord: 1. Identification 2. Measurement 3. Valuation

What is a societal perspective?

Antwoord: A perspective that includes healthcare costs, but also patient and family costs, productivity losses and costs in other sectors

Name 3 reasons to involve patients in HTA?

Antwoord: 1. Patients are key stakeholders and have a democratic right to be involved 2. Patients can provide information and insight that is not available elsewhere 3. Patients describe the outcomes that matter to them and challenge presumptions about their health

Name 3 results of using patient involvement in healthcare decisions

Antwoord: 1. Make better research, clinical, licensing, reimbursement and policy decisions that better reflect the preferences of stakeholders 2. Improve effectiveness of healthcare interventions by improving adoption of, satisfaction with and adherence to clinical treatments or public health programs 3. Improve quality, relevance and value of HTA

Name the 4 roles a patient can have involved in HTA

Antwoord: 1. Consultation 2. Advice 3. Collaboration 4. Control

Explain what a patient does when he/she is a consultant for HTA

Antwoord: Patient is a study participant

Explain what a patient does, when he/she is an advice giver in HTA

Antwoord: The informed patient gives advice through discussing new developments, sharing personal knowledge and experience and reviewing research grant applications, usually only for one time