IVI MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Wayne Burton

For our first Member Spotlight, we chatted with Dr. Wayne Burton about what he sees as the future of value assessment. Dr. Burton has been with IVI almost since its inception. This interview is an adaptation of a conversation we had with Dr. Burton this fall.     Tell us a little about yourself and [...]

2021-10-26T13:37:28-04:00September 29th, 2020|Blog, Member Spotlight|

Tackling Hard Questions in Value

Author: Jennifer Bright, MPA, Executive Director, IVI For decades, we've known that untreated or poorly treated Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is an enormous burden on individual patients, our health care system, and our society. Despite having this knowledge, there is much work to do in order to support and optimize cost-effective care for patients suffering [...]

2020-12-29T17:01:00-05:00September 9th, 2020|Blog|

PRESS RELEASE: IVI’s Next Value Assessment Model to Address Major Depressive Disorder Interventions

First of Its Kind Depression Model to be Informed by Input from Diverse Advisory Group September 9, 2020 — Alexandria, VA — The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) — a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the science, practice, and use of value assessment in healthcare — today announced a multi-year initiative to build and test [...]

2021-03-23T18:45:01-04:00September 9th, 2020|News, Press|

IVI and the University of Maryland Pharmacy School’s PAVE Center Partner on Patient-Centered Value Assessment

In an article in The Patient, IVI and the Patient-Driven Values in Healthcare Evaluation (PAVE) Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy describe how they develop methods and models that make patient-centered value assessment both scientifically feasible and relevant to real-world decisions across the range of stakeholders. Read the full article here.

2020-08-28T17:17:34-04:00August 28th, 2020|News, Viewpoints|

Second Webinar in the ISPOR-IVI Series Explores Whether Value Assessments are Up to the Task in the Age of COVID-19

The second part of a five-part webinar series examining value assessment in the COVID-19 era hosted by ISPOR and the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) will explore whether the methods on which health economists have relied are up to task or in need of improvement for the pandemic era. Moderated by Lou Garrison, PhD (University [...]

2020-09-09T09:43:29-04:00August 24th, 2020|News|

PRESS RELEASE: IVI Announces Grant to National Health Council, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions to Improve Value Assessment

Goal: Identify Areas of Consensus to Ultimately Make the Value Assessment Process Useful to Those Who Receive and Pay for Care Alexandria, VA – July 20, 2020 – The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI), a non-profit research organization dedicated to improving the science and practice of value assessment, announced today it is awarding a grant [...]

2021-03-23T18:46:33-04:00July 20th, 2020|News, Press|

Watch Mark Linthicum’s “101 Course” on IVI’s New Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Value Model

IVI's Director of Scientific Communications, Mark Linthicum, sits down with the Journal of Clinical Pathways for a webinar discussion about IVI's open-source model for assessing value in non-small cell lung cancer therapies. If you want to learn more about IVI's open-source approach to value assessment, this webinar is a great place to start. Click here to [...]

2019-03-11T17:01:06-04:00March 11th, 2019|News|

How the Open Science Movement Creates Momentum for Value Assessment

In a Morning Consult commentary, IVI Executive Director, Jennifer Bright, discusses why transparency is a prerequisite to value-based reimbursement and how IVI's Open-Source Value Platform (OSVP) is an open laboratory for creating sophisticated systems to assess value in healthcare. Read the full article here.

2019-01-03T15:47:22-05:00January 3rd, 2019|News, Viewpoints|

PRESS RELEASE: IVI Responds to HHS’ Blueprint Saying Lowering Healthcare Costs Requires Improving Value Assessment

IVI Says Moving Beyond Cost Effectiveness by Evaluating Treatments Based on Unique Patient Characteristics and Preferences is Imperative Los Angeles, CA – July 16, 2018 -- If we are going to truly harness data to lower healthcare costs while accelerating and rewarding innovation that benefits patients, then defining and assessing value in healthcare must [...]

2021-03-23T19:05:56-04:00July 16th, 2018|News, Press|
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