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The Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care, InnoValHC, is an independent not-for-profit research organization. It was established by scientists with medical, health economic, and econometric backgrounds, as well as hands-on management experience, to analyze the economic dimension of health and health care, including research into the normative foundations and the methods of health economics, applied cost of illness and cost benefit studies, and their use in Health Technology Assessment (HTA).

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Pharma Pricing & Access Innovation Conference 2025

Michael Schlander will speak about ´Early Strategic Decision Making in Drug Development: The Role of Health Economics for Market Access´ at the PPIC in Basel / Switzerland (June 3-5, 2025).

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Measuring the Socioeconomic Impact of Cancer

Discussion paper on measuring the socioeconomic impact of cancer based on a systematic review and standardized assessment of patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments.

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Summer School 2024 Evaluation Report

For the first time, the Heidelberg Health Economics Summer School took place in the picturesque Italian Dolomites (Bruneck-Brunico / September 20-27, 2024). The Evaluation Report is now available and can be downloaded.

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New Health Economic Perspectives

Michael Schlander presented and discussed the topic "Health Technology Assessment (HTA): New Health Economic Perspectives" at the EuHEA Conference 2024 in Vienna, Austria / June 30 - July 03, 2024.

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Textbook Release in 2023

Michael Schlander, Ramon Schäfer, Lorenz Selberg:

Nutzen der Labormedizin
in der Schweiz

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2023
ISBN 978-3-662-66824-5 (Softcover)
ISBN 978-3-662-66825-2 (eBook)

OPEN ACCESS

While experts believe that 70 % of all clinical decisions depend on laboratory test information, the cost effectiveness of many diagnostic procedures is subject to controversial debate.
With this Open Access Book, we provide insight into the value of laboratory medicine from the perspectives of patients, public health, and society at large, using the Swiss health care system as a case study.