Tufts Medical Center and National Health Council Report New Partnership to Enhance Value Assessments

The National Health Council (NHC) and the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center will collaborate in an effort to improve patient-centered value and health technology assessments. The partnership will improve the use of patient information and data, such as patient-reported outcomes. In addition, the collaboration will improve study design and clarity in value assessments.

“Patient-centered value/health technology assessment (V/HTA) exists when patients are engaged, heard, understood, and respected throughout the entire V/HTA process, and their input is incorporated and guides decision-making. A V/HTA can be considered patient-centered when individual patients sit down with a final V/HTA report and believe it reflects the multi-dimensionality of their experiences, the burden of disease, and recognizes the different ways a disease manifest.” Read more here.

(Source: Drs. Elisabeth Oehrlein & Tara Lavelle, Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center, 5/11/21)