Abstract: Health technology management: Using routinely collected activity data and structured ...

Health technology management: Using routinely collected activity data and structured elicitation to iteratively plan, model and implement services

This is an abstract presentation recorded for the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority's (IHACPA) Activity Based Funding Conference 2022, which was held virtually from 5 to 6 May 2022.

About this abstract

Health economists have set the challenge for themselves to not only act in their traditional “technology evaluator” role but also facilitate a greater “search for efficiency” approach within health systems (Scotland & Bryan, 2017). This involves the iterative management of existing care, along integrated care pathways for whole conditions, rather than the additive adoption of discrete and disjointed products and services. But this is no simple task. It necessitates the involvement of value-based thinking much earlier within service planning and intervention design. It also requires participatory methods to engage diverse clinical, administrative and executive staff to understand the expected value of their different options (Partington & Karnon, 2021). The deliberation and interpretation of local utilisation and outcomes data is key to ensuring that evidence is directly generalisable to idiosyncratic, dynamic and adaptive decision-problems (Braithwaite, 2018). We have been trialling methods for early and exploratory economic evaluation, while embedded within Local Health Networks in South Australia.

Presenter

• Mr Andrew Partington, Research Fellow, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute

Working within the National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability, Andrew leads projects that improve the use of economic evidence in the design, implementation and evaluation of health services.

He has previously worked within the South Australian state government and the United Kingdom National Health Service in strategic evaluation and planning roles, and as an expert evaluator for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee.

In addition to his work with Flinders University, Andrew is also an Honorary Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University; an associate editor with the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care; and a member of the New South Wales Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee.


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Note: On Friday 12 August 2022, the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) commenced a formal transition as its functions were expanded to include the provision of costing and pricing advice on aged care services and the agency renamed to the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA).