Welcome to our webinars, where high-level international experts share their experiences in implementing tools and strategies to strengthen informed decision making in health. Here you will find dozens of videos, as well as presentations from our guests, transcripts, and recommended technical document.
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Claudia Vaca, advisor to the Ministry of Health on Pharmaceutical Policy, presents an analysis of one of the health benefit plans with the longest history in the region: the Colombian POS. The main challenges and lessons derived from 20 years of experience are analyzed and the challenges that Colombia will have to face within a new context where there will no longer be an explicit benefits plan accompanied by a positive list of covered technologies are discussed.
"Although economic evaluation is established in a large number of European countries as an integral part of the decision-making processes for the implementation of new health technologies, today there is a consensus on the insufficiency of cost-benefit analysis and on the importance and need to involve different criteria in the evaluation processes.
Although economic evaluation is established in a large number of European countries as an integral part of the decision-making processes for the implementation of new health technologies, today there is a consensus on the insufficiency of cost-benefit analysis and on the importance and necessity of to involve different criteria in the evaluation processes.
Video of the webinar on the design and adjustment of the PDSS in the Dominican Republic, presented by Magdalena Rathe and Oscar Cañón in the framework of the Regional Network for Prioritization and Health Benefit Plans of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Case study of the PDSS Health Services Plan of the Dominican Republic
"Video of the webinar on the design and adjustment of the PDSS in the Dominican Republic, presented by Magdalena Rathe and Oscar Cañón within the framework of the Regional Network for Prioritization and Health Benefit Plans of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Case study of the PDSS Health Services Plan of the Dominican Republic"
Valerie Paris from the OECD talks about health benefit plans in member countries.
Thomas Wilkinson provides a comparative analysis of the institutional design to decide health coverage in New Zealand (Pharmac) and UK (NICE).
Webinar presentado por el Dr. Benedict Rumbold, UK, donde se exploran los pro y los contra para el sistema de salud de El Reino Unido si se decidiera establecer una definición más explícita de beneficios.
Andres Pichon-Riviére recounts the progress and challenges of the institutionalization of Health Technology Assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean.