Author: Rick Chapman, PhD, Chief Science Officer, IVI Policymakers continue to grapple with finding the right approaches to curtailing drug costs and improving health care. Organizations that conduct value and health technology assessment (HTA) are grappling with finding the right approaches, too. IVI has created a new infographic to illustrate our patient-centered approach to [...]
Author: Jennifer Bright, MPA, Executive Director, IVI "Poor value assessment hardwires inequity into health." - Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD; Biotechnology Innovation Organization - Session 1: Meaningful Action Toward Health Equity IVI's three-part series on health equity and value assessment concluded earlier this month, and we're proud to have convened these thoughtful dialogues among diverse experts [...]
Ms. Bright brings over two decades of health care policy, issue management, patient advocacy, and executive leadership to the role. She is also founder and President of Momentum Health Strategies and has formerly served as executive director of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, representing physician, advanced practice nurse, and researcher [...]
Value Blueprints Research Brief Explores Patient-Driven Value Element Framework to Identify Factors Most Important to Patients Alexandria, VA — June 3, 2021 — The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI), an independent, nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing patient-centric value assessment, today released a research brief describing the application of a patient-driven value elements framework in [...]
IVI economists and staff recently published this open-access article describing specifically how IVI puts stakeholder engagement at the center of value assessment. Read about the engagement process IVI is using to build patient-centricity into its major depressive disorder (MDD) health economic model below or on download a copy from PharmacoEconomics here. Putting [...]
On Monday, May 3, IVI, along with Jessica Kennedy from Mental Health America and Mohannad Kusti from Pivot Onsite-Innovations, held an informational webinar on the draft model scope for IVIs's upcoming economic model on major depressive disorder (MDD). To prime the pump for your own comments and feedback, we're sharing some of the questions and [...]
Summit Will Address Priority Patient Inputs for Comparative Effectiveness Research and HTA Alexandria, VA — April 27, 2021 — The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI), an independent nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing patient-centric value assessment, today announced it will convene the second annual Methods Summit, a multi-stakeholder event to drive consensus on priority patient [...]
IVI's Jennifer Bright and Rick Chapman recently published a commentary in STAT describing the urgency of getting value assessment right. Read the full commentary below. It's time to get health care value assessment right By Jennifer Bright and Richard H. Chapman, April 15, 2021 Trying to gauge the value of new drugs [...]
Alexandria, VA — April 12, 2021 — The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) — a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the science, practice, and use of value assessment in healthcare — today published the initial scope of its Open-Source Value Project Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) economic model. The scope document will be open for public [...]
In a commentary published in the American Journal of Managed Care, IVI's Jennifer Bright, EveryLife Foundation's Annie Kennedy, and National Health Council's Eleanor Perfetto teamed up to describe how their organizations are joining forces to advance patient-centric value assessment measurements. "Patient centricity" — engaging with patients as partners, rather than doing on behalf of the [...]
