How are health technologies put into use in the care of patients evaluated in Denmark?

Michael Dall, chairman of the Danish Health Technology Council, will give a lecture on “How are health technologies put into use in the care of patients evaluated in Denmark?”. The lecture is part of the KU course on Clinical decision making, and will be at Uni-parken - Auditorium 4, Building 14.2.240B.

Abstract:

In Denmark, there is a strong culture and history of evaluating hospital medicines, but not when it comes to medical devices, constituting a large part of the health technologies present in Danish hospitals, and procedures. In these years, the healthcare system is facing various challenges and the need to prioritize scarce resources in healthcare has never been more necessary. In this lecture, Michael Dall will present the existing framework for evaluating health technologies in the Danish healthcare setting, which is based on utilising multiple perspectives to assess the value of health technology: clinical effect and safety, patient, organisation, and health economy.

The lecture ends with a group exercise where the students use the multi-perspective framework to ask relevant research questions within each perspective to assess the value of two selected cases.