Keeping it real: Potential role of real-world evidence in health care

Date:

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Time:

12.00pm – 1.00pm

Venue:

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
National University of Singapore,
Seminar Room 2, Level 8
Tahir Foundation Building (MD1),
12 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117549

Synopsis:

In an environment with constrained resources, understanding the value for money of a health intervention (e.g., medications, medical devices) could support the process for funding and resource allocation decisions. There are several ways we can show the value for money of health interventions. Each way has own strengths and own limitations. One approach is focusing on how we could use existing information (such as administrative databases) to help show the value for money of health interventions; this approach is real-world evidence (RWE). Using RWE (though comes with limitations which are important to address) aims to incorporate variability among individuals, represent the real-world setting, and could be viewed as a cost-effective approach to create evidence. This session will introduce RWE by defining what it is, presenting potential ways it could assist the policy- and decision-making process, and highlighting both its strengths and limitations.

About the speaker:

Dr Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai is a Senior Researcher at the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (a part of the Ministry of Public Health) in Bangkok, Thailand, and a Research Scientist at the Centre for Excellence in Economic Analysis Research of St. Michael’s Hospital, and at the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control in Canada. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on how to apply economic evaluation in the real world setting as well as how to advance methods in economic evaluation. She has experience conducting economic evaluations using personlevel data and decision modeling. She has collaborated with researchers and decision-makers in various areas to help communicate the value of health initiatives using economic evidence. Dr. Isaranuwatchai is dedicated to promoting the use of evidence in healthcare decision making.