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Welcome to the cost-utility calculation and risk assessment tool of the Cost-utility analysis (CUA) subgroup of the ISBT. This tool allows you to perform customized analysis of blood donation screening strategies for HIV, HBV, and HCV. Developed and maintained by the International Society of Blood Transfusion. For information or support contact the WP TTID – Cost Utility Analysis subgroup.

This dashboard can be used to run an economic model that was developed by the CUA subgroup. You can modify the model parameters to reflect your local setting, and estimate the cost-effectiveness of screening strategies in your own setting.

Our team will gladly demonstrate the possibilities of our platform to provide easy online access to any cost-effectiveness or budget impact model. You are welcome at our booth at the upcoming ISPOR European Congress in Prague, 6-9 November 2010.

BaseCase is a sponsor of this event. Take a preview of one of our online demos.

Short summary

Economic models are more frequently used in the communications with regional payers, for example to perform a budget impact or business-case analysis for each individual payer. We will present an overview of case-studies that use models in this way, and identify the key challenges and potential solutions of using models at the regional level.

Background

The decentralisation of the health care decision making process in many countries resulted in an additional hurdle for new pharmaceuticals: inclusion in local formularies of payers. However, the decision criteria that payers apply are not explicitly stated and the process lacks transparency. An individual, case-by-case approach is needed. The approach we will explore in this workshop is to take economic models to the payer and perform a custom analysis for their setting. Economic models synthesise evidence from a wide range of sources, and model outcome reflects the consensus of the authors on numerous assumptions. But for such analyses be credible, consensus with payers on model assumptions is crucial. To build credibility with payers, a model needs to be explained and adapted to the local setting. Through dialogue and collaboration with payers, consensus can be reached on model outcome. By integrating the mathematical model into a presentation that is suitable to be used by non-experts, pharmacoeconomic evidence can be effectively used at the regional level.

Discussion Leaders

Mark Nuijten MD, PhD, MBA, Director, Ars Accessus Medica/Erasmus University Rotterdam, Jisp, The Netherlands; Gijs Hubben PhD, Health Economist, BaseCase Software, Berlin, Germany

The base-case data for this model comes from Uganda. You can adapt the model to your setting and explore results. The dashboard uses the original Excel model to perform calculations.

When using this model, please keep in mind that the work on the underlying model has not been published yet, and may undergo further changes.

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This workshop is organized by Uwe Siebert and colleagues, and will cover:

• Modeling overview and taxonomy
• Decision trees, state-transition and Markov models
• Handling uncertainty and variability

• Microsimulation models
• Discrete event simulation models
• Handling individual behavior and waiting lines

• Infectious disease models
• Handling dynamic transmissions and herd immunity
• Other modeling approaches (e.g., agent-based models, system dynamics models, causal influence models, biologic systems models)

Our team will gladly demonstrate to you the possibilities of our platform to provide easy online access to any cost-effectiveness or budget impact model. You are welcome at our booth at the upcoming ISPOR 15th Annual International Meeting, 15-19 May 2010.

Preview one of our online demos we will be demonstrating at this conference. We look forward to seeing you there.

But when making an important dashboard presentations, our customers don’t want to be completely dependent on internet access. A reliable internet connection is often, but not always available. For these situations, our development team has developed technology that allows users to access their dashboards without an internet connection.

When ‘Offline mode’ is enabled, all dashboard simulation data is downloaded locally to the user’s desktop computer. This happens seamlessly in the background, and after the syncronization is completed, the dashboard can be used without an internet connection.

With ‘Offline mode’, any mathematical model can now be easily used online AND offline, combining the power of a web application with the reliability of desktop software.

• HTA is gaining importance at the sub-national level. Economic evidence is more frequently required when negotiating with payers, healthcare trusts, hospital administrators and guideline committees.

• HTA models are important tools to communicate with regional decision makers, but the technical complexities of working with models have until now discouraged wide-spread use by representatives and account managers.

We hope to see you at the HTA world conference, that will take place from 8-11 December 2009 in London, UK. BaseCase Software is an official sponsor of this event.

This dashboard allows easy interaction with a ‘classic’ cost-effectiveness model, that was developed by Dr. Ron Goeree, Dr. Andrew Briggs and colleagues. It was described in detail and was later extended with a full probabilistic sensitivity analysis.

Go straight to the new GERD dashboard.

The original decision model can be readily downloaded from the HERC website as an Excel model or a TreeAge model.

This model serves as an excellent illustration of the capabilities of Basecase Interactive to explain and communicate the outcome of health economic models to non-experts using compelling visualization. This dashboards features comparative analysis, an interactive CE-plane and PDF report generation.

You can compare how the model input parameters in the original TreeAge model are presented to the user in the online dashboard. BaseCase Interactive uses the original model to perform all computations, so the model can be easily maintained while it is online.

Background

In the field of health economic, decision makers don’t often interact directly with the economic model that underlies most economic evaluations, even though this interaction has important benefits. For example, it can explain relationships, it can allow decision makers to incorporate the latest evidence and transfer a model to their own setting, and it can help to build consensus among stakeholders.
The reason economic models are not usually accessible to decision makers, is because of the technical complexities associated with modelling technologies. To overcome these technical difficulties, BaseCase uses modern web technology to allow interaction with economic models on the internet.

Relevance to professionals working in health economics

Of major importance to many health economics professionals, whether they are working in the industry, in academia or as consultants, is to clearly communicate the outcome of complex economic model to decision makers. Interaction with economic models can play an important role in communicating health economic evidence. It can help transferring economic evaluations to other settings, and the (technological) barriers for non-experts to interact with economic models can be substantially lowered. This new approach can make an important contribution to increase the impact of health economics on decision making.

Applications

User-friendly dashboards for economic models can be used by the pharmaceutical industry to communicate value to a distributed audience of decision makers such as hospital administrators, third party payers or clinicians. Another application is the use of dashboards by non-profit institutions to communicate public health models to a broad audience of decision makers in developing nations.

About BaseCase Software

BaseCase GmbH develops software to make health economic models, such as cost-effectiveness and budget impact models, easy to use online. BaseCase has developed a web-based platform that allows the pharmaceutical/medical industry as well as non-profit organizations and academic institutions, to use and share health economic models online. BaseCase software makes complex models easy to understand, easy to use and easy to distribute.

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BaseCase GmbH. Zug, Switzerland. 21 April 2009.

Our team will gladly demonstrate to you the possibilities of our platform to provide easy online access to any cost-effectiveness or budget impact model. You are welcome at our booth #67 at the upcoming ISPOR European Congress in Paris, 24-27 October 2009. BaseCase GmbH is a sponsor of this event.

Curious? You can preview one of our online demos.

Curious? You can preview one of our online demos

International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research (ISPOR) – 14th Annual Meeting Orlando 2009. BaseCase GmbH is a sponsor of this event.

BaseCase Interactive now includes an interactive version of the CE-plane. This innovation marks an important step towards our goal of making the results of cost-effectiveness analysis easier to communicate. Try out one of our demos to see the ce plane in action.

You can use BaseCase interactive to publish any TreeAge model to the web, and make it easy to access and use for your entire organization.

See a demo of a TreeAge model running on our software.

With the launch of the BaseCase interactive dashboards, a custom dashboard can be configured for any model within a short amount of time. The dashboard is a very flexible object that can be customized to carry a specific message for a specific audience.

Curious? Try out one of our demo dashboards.