HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SUPPORTS EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING IN THE CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL MARKETPLACE EXERCISE
Author(s)
Pwee KH, Tong SC, Chow WL
Eastern Health Alliance, Singapore, Singapore
Presentation Documents
OBJECTIVES: The Changi General Hospital (CGH) Marketplace allows departments to share proposed projects (including new services and technologies) for consideration in the hospital’s corporate planning and budgeting cycle. This presentation describes the health technology assessment (HTA) framework and how it supported evidence-based decision-making in the 2015 Marketplace. METHODS: The following steps were taken to incorporate evidence-based decision-making for resource allocation into the 2015 Marketplace. Six weeks before the 2015 Marketplace, two workshops were organised to train project proposers to carry out a simple rapid review of the evidence supporting their projects. A new evidence annex, to encourage evidence review by the proposer, was required to be filled by the proposer for any proposed new services or technologies. Following the presentations of the projects at Marketplace, Management requested Eastern Health Alliance Health Services Research team (EHA HSR) to carry out rapid HTA on the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of selected projects. The HTA reports informed Management decisions on the services/technologies. RESULTS: Eighteen people registered for the workshops, of which one third subsequently submitted a proposal for the Marketplace. 92% of attendees agreed that coverage and depth of the sessions were adequate and improved understanding of the topic. Thirty-one proposals were submitted for consideration at Marketplace, 15 of these proposed new services/technologies. EHA HSR was requested to conduct HTA on 7 proposals. The HTA reports, prepared with clinical input from the proposer, informed Management decisions on the technologies. CONCLUSIONS: HTA contributed to the 2015 Marketplace by clarifying the evidence from scientific research on safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of proposed technologies. Based on experience from the exercise, the processes were refined to improve efficiency and quality of reports.
Conference/Value in Health Info
2016-09, ISPOR Asia Pacific 2016, Singapore
Value in Health, Vol. 19, No. 7 (November 2016)
Code
PHP106
Topic
Health Technology Assessment
Topic Subcategory
Decision & Deliberative Processes
Disease
Multiple Diseases