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 [...]
Author: Jennifer Bright, MPA, Executive Director, IVI The promise of a new year offers an opportunity to recall our best moments in 2020 (surely there are a few!) and get excited for what's ahead. For IVI, I've been thinking about the accomplishments not just in 2020, but in the three years since I joined this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Author: Jennifer Bright, MPA Everyone hopes for a COVID vaccine so our lives can return to normal. Yet, we know that even if clinical trials prove a vaccine's effectiveness, our society will still have to endure a long process of distribution. I'm personally willing to wait for a vaccine for healthcare workers, the elderly, and [...]
IVI has just released the latest update to the organization's Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Value Assessment Model. The updated model now incorporates additional treatment options (triple therapy, Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors, sarilumab, and biosimilars), updated treatment effect estimates based on additional randomized controlled trial (RCT) evidence, and updated cost estimates. The model is also designed to [...]
As part of its Value Blueprints series, IVI’s latest research brief grapples with a question prompted by ICER’s recent assessment of RA therapies: Do conventional value assessments address the questions most relevant to real-world decisions about treatment pathways for chronic diseases? In the brief, the authors discuss how the failure of ICER’s analysis to evaluate [...]
In a new Value Blueprints research brief, IVI explores the concept of “structural uncertainty,” an important source of uncertainty that is not generally measured or addressed in cost-effectiveness models. In this research brief, we use the IVI-RA model to demonstrate how different structural assumptions lead to varying cost-effectiveness estimates. As our findings make clear, it [...]
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 [...]
