Leela Barham

We all make mistakes — and that includes those involved in Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Following an error made by ICER this year, Leela Barham looks at similar mistakes made in the past and what can be done about them.

Leela Barham talks to Yvette Venable, the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness Review's new Vice President of Patient Engagement, about how ICER is ramping up its efforts to bring patient organizations along on its journey.

ISPOR has published its third issue of the top trends in HEOR. Leela Barham takes a look at how the list has changed over time.

Leela Barham talks to Dr. Brian O’Rourke, outgoing President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), about his 11 in years in the role.

Leela Barham reacts to the Institute for Economic and Clinical Review's very first Unsupported Price Increase (UPI) report.

Leela Barham talks to Sir David Haslam, the outgoing Chair of UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), about the highs and lows of his six-year tenure at the organization.

The UK has had in place what amount to two pricing schemes for branded medicines for years. But with major changes to both schemes set out in 2018, it’s now a new tale of two pricing schemes. Leela Barham reports.

Among the new acronyms watch is UPI, or unjustified price increase, recently coined by ICER as part of its new workstream to explore price increases for both branded and generic drugs in the US.

The Institute for Clinical Effectiveness Review (ICER) has set up a working group to bring together the expertise of NICE and other key HTAs to develop new methods to guide value-based pricing of potential cures. Leela Barham reports.

President Trump's International Pricing Index proposals amount to international reference pricing (IRP), something that countries in Europe have been doing for years. Leela Barham asks, What lessons can be learned from there?