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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2025
Redefining value assessment and healthcare funding priorities for medicines: the journey to patient-centric decision making in APAC – a systematic literature review
14 May 2025 - This study explored patient involvement in health care decision-making in the Asia-Pacific region by identifying roles and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2024
Co-design of an enhanced consumer engagement process
18 March 2024 - A consumer-led Co-design Working Group has developed proposed recommendations for enhancing consumer engagement processes to enable ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2023
Ethical and legal considerations in social media research for health technology assessment: conclusions from a scoping review
20 October 2023 - The objective was to identify and describe the published guidance and current academic discourse of ethical issues ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2023
Patient and citizen participation at the organisational level in health technology assessment: an exploratory study in five jurisdictions
8 August 2023 - While patient participation in individual health technology assessments has been frequently described in the literature, patient and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2023
ICER launches a patient council to amplify the patient voice in value assessment
11 July 2023 - Patient Council will advise ICER on engaging with patient groups while also identifying strategies to communicate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2022
PHARMAC welcomes Myeloma NZ as first patient advocacy group to present to PTAC
21 November 2022 - Myeloma New Zealand presented directly to PHARMAC’s Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC) on Thursday, making ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2022
Patient centred health technology assessment: a perspective on engagement in health technology assessment by three patient organisations and a health technology assessment body
20 October 2022 - Patient engagement in health technology assessment has become increasingly important over the past 20 years. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2022
The patient voice – the value of patient-reported outcomes in HTA
4 August 2022 - The patient’s voice is increasingly important in securing access for therapies in markets and demonstrating how ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2022
FDA official: patients play an increasing role in rare disease drug development
1 August 2022 - Patients have a critical role in drug development, from identifying unmet medical needs to assessing meaningful ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2022
Pressured by patients, FDA reviews ALS drug with modest data
25 March 2022 - The FDA meets next week to review a closely watched drug for ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2022
Mentoring as a potential means to assist consumer representatives contribute effectively to the assessment of health technologies in Australia: a pragmatic review
7 February 2022 - This project was implemented on behalf of the Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee to explore training ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2022
Analysis of consumer comments into PBAC decision-making (2014–9)
4 February 2022 - Our objective was to analyse and review consumer comments in the PBAC's decision-making process. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2021
Bringing a consumer perspective to clinical advice
19 October 2021 - PHARMAC is making changes to the way its advisory committees work to strengthen the input of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2021
Consumers to have more say on medicine access issues
7 September 2021 - Consumer involvement in Australia’s medicines choices has been further strengthened under a new strategic agreement Medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2021
How to balance the patient voice atop the shifting plates of HTA
3 August 2021 - The tectonic plates of healthcare technology assessment have shifted – but where does the patient voice ...