Healthcare industry monitoring

HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY MONITORING


The monitoring activity of the healthcare observatory project to be set up by the Foundation is to cover two main areas:
1. Comparison of health industry technologies
2. Professional scientific analyses on health care

The research targets the exploration of correlations that fundamentally determine or partly influence

  • the direction of development of the technologies examined
  • the onset of the diseases of the chosen group; correlations, risk factors and cost ratios of intercurrent diseases.

Additional goals are, from the market side, exploring marketing opportunities in health care; from the side of strategy making, performing decision supporting analyses for product and service development as well as health care policy.



1. The analysis of healthcare industry technologies (including medicines, medical aids, healthcare procedures, medical devices, diagnostic and preventive screening procedures) as regards their properties, effectiveness, cost-efficiency and economic and social impacts in the following fields :
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  • needs assessment for healthcare services based on epidemiologic, demographic, infrastructure, lifestyle, etc. data and data analysis
  • calculation of burdens of diseases on classic and benchmarking bases
  • systematic reviews of the technical literature by exploring and systemising the scientific evidence available
  • estimation of direct and indirect costs
    Consideration of clinical efficiency, effectiveness and utility
  • health impact assessments at the societal level
    Healthcare economic analyses (cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses)
  • sensitivity analyses for the most important parameters: different cost and price levels, different levels of effectiveness, life quality and time span
  • budget-impact analyses from the financier’s aspect.

2. Making comprehensive statements and data visualisations with the following units of analysis, from public health, health insurance and other public databases, by innovative data mining, statistical, network research and healthcare economic methods of analysis:
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  • risk analyses based on the environmental and individual parameters of the disease examined
  • examination of correlations between the primary disease and intercurrent diseases
  • correlations between the use of services (e.g. what types of healthcare services were used, how frequently and where)
  • surgery correlations: examination of surgery and its effectiveness in a given category (e.g. the health insurance category of prosthesis implants)
  • follow-up analyses on surgery
  • cost-efficiency analyses (e.g. the specific analysis e.g. of the costs and effectiveness of the individual phases of therapy)
  • customised risk analyses
  • preparation of setting up online diagnosis; arranging medical knowledge into expert systems
  • examination of the social embeddedness of static and dynamic healthcare issues at the national and international levels (e.g. healthcare marketing, attitude formation)
  • international benchmarking analyses in the fields of health policy and strategic planning