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October 04, 2006
"Technology Innovation in Health Care: Who's Calling the Shots?" - The 2006 Labelle Lecture: McMaster University
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 4 October 2006
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3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Reception to follow-Phoenix Lounge, Wentworth House
Lecturer: Pascale Lehoux
Associate Professor, Department of Health Administration, University of Montreal. Canada Research Chair on Innovation in HealthDiscussant: Geoff Fernie
Vice President, Research at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Abstract: Since the mid-1980s, health care systems have had to adapt to the constant emergence of technologies and the rising cost of health care services. Nevertheless, we know very little about why certain innovations emerge while others do not, and who makes these decisions. Although industry is often portrayed as the profit-driven “big bad wolf,” several groups, including clinicians and governments, play a pivotal role in innovation. One issue that remains largely unacknowledged is the extent to which these groups are interdependent. For instance, the industry branch of government largely supports R&D while health care decision-makers are those holding the purse strings. Industry needs to collaborate with patient associations and the media to promote the idea that rapid access to innovations will benefit the population. And clinicians, who generally wish to increase the scope of their clinical tools, usually build convincing claims about their patients’ needs. This lecture will examine how these groups negotiate what innovations should be funded and promoted and how some of their claims become more convincing than others.
Biosketch: Pascale obtained her Ph.D. in Public Health from University of Montreal in 1996. She obtained a National Scholar from the NHRDP (1998-2003) and a New Investigator Award from the CIHR-IHPSR (2003-2005). She is a Researcher with the Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sante (GRIS) at University of Montreal and was a consultant researcher for the Quebec Health Services and Technology Assessment agency (AETMIS) between 1994 and 2004. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair on Innovation in Health (2005-2010) where her current research interests lie with the sociology of innovation, the production and use of Health Technology Assessment (HTA), and knowledge utilization. She recently published a book entitled The Problem of Health Technology.
For further information regarding the Lectureship please contact:
Christine Henderson,
Program for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH)
25 Main Street West, Suite 2000,
Hamilton, ON. L8P 1H1
Tel: 905-523-7284, x5268
Fax: 905-522-0568
email: hendersc@mcmaster.ca
Website: http://www.path-hta.ca/
ESF-IfW Conferences on The Global Health Economy - New Technology and Medical Decision Making: Normative Models and Empirical Practice: European Science Foundation
Location: Salzau Castle (near Kiel), Germany
Dates: 4-9 October 2006
Deadline for Applications: 7 August 2006 (deadline extended)
- Chair: Uwe Siebert UMIT, Hall, AT & Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
- Co-Chair: Peter Zweifel University of Zürich, CH
A certain number of grants (covering the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs) will be available for young researchers. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the section #5 “Grant application” of the application form.
With support from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung and the State Government of Schleswig-Holstein through its Gesundheitsinitiative
Invited Speakers will include
- H. Bleichrodt Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
- J.L. Bosch Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
- A. Briggs Glasgow U., UK
- D.I. Brixner Utah U., Salt Lake City, US
- K. Claxton York U., Heslington, UK
- D.E. Detmer Virginia U., US
- L. Eeckhoudt CORE Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
- E.-M. Engels Tübingen U., DE
- A.C. Gelijns Columbia U. New York, US
- R. Körfer Bochum U., DE
- M. Krahn Toronto U, CA
- T. Lindholm Stockholm U., SE
- F. Martín-Sanchez National Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, ES
- D.O. Meltzer Chicago U., US
- J.S. Pliskin Ben-Gurion U., IL
- P. Propping Bonn U., DE
- M.S. Roberts Pittsburgh U., US
- J.M. Robins Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, US
- D. Timmermans Amsterdam U., NL
- M. Sculpher York U., UK
- U. Siebert UMIT Hall, AT & Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
- P. Zweifel Zürich U., CH
Scope: Rapid advances in medical knowledge and technology have long been recognized as a key challenge to the theory and practice of medical decision making. From an economic point of view, the need to revise and update decision making rules as new knowledge and diagnostic and therapeutic choices become available represents an investment problem - both in the management of individual patients and in the management of medical technology at the systemic level. Fundamental uncertainty and often irreversible consequences of specific choices abound. At either level, efficiency requires that investment decisions be based on the timely supply of evidence on a technology’s efficacy and cost-effectiveness. This necessitates further improvements in the methodology of health technology assessments, including more comprehensive economic evaluations, as well as in the set of institutions that govern health care practice and determine how quickly new information diffuses, how careful it is evaluated, filtered and targeted at those most likely to benefit from it, and how the risks associated with the adoption of new technology are allocated.
Our conference comprises five thematic sessions with invited presentations and additional short talks and poster viewing sessions. The main sessions are titled:
- Trends in Medical Technology – Focusing Devices, Technological Trajectories, and Forecasting,
- The Science of Medical Decision Making – Producing and Using Information for Efficient Risk Management,
- Medical Infrastructure, Insurance, and the Diffusion of Innovation,
- Methods for Estimating the Causal Effect of Medical Interventions from Observational Data,
- Priority Setting, Health Technology Assessment, and Research Investments.
Young researchers from economics, medicine and related disciplines are invited to apply for this conference and contribute their own ideas and research findings for selected short talks and poster viewing sessions. Grants to cover the conference fee and a generous contribution towards travel costs will be available for the best young applicants. In addition, there will be talks selected from poster abstracts and prizes awarded for the best posters. The overall objective is to build international and interdisciplinary research networks in the area of medical decision making.
Application Form & Programme available online
European Science Foundation
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