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ES97F Student Resources 2016

Lecture 1 (14.01.2016, 2 hours)

In this lecture, after giving an overview of the module, fundamental concepts of health economy and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) were presented and discussed.

  • Introduction to the module. Reading material: ppt
  • Introduction to Healthcare Market and to Health Technology Assessment. Reading material: ppt, Market, HTA

Lecture 2 (19.01.2016, 1 hour)

In order to maximise the impact of healthcare technologies, it is important to deeply analyse the needs that the technology will have to satisfy. User need elicitation is important for healthcare technology design and assessment and includes the identification of all the needs, their classification in meaningful categories and their prioritization. In this lecture a method for user need elicitation is presented: the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).

  • AHP for user need elicitation: handouts ppt
  • Deepening: ppt
  • Case Sduties:

Lecture 3 (21.01.2016, 2 hours)

After reviewing the fundamental concepts of HTA, 4 basic exercises were presented and discussed.

Lecture 4 (26.01.2016, 1 hour) [Seminar]

This seminar was given by Dr Sebastiano Massaro, (Warwick Business School, link), which introduced key concepts of Innovation in Healthcare Technology focusing on:

Lecture 5 (28.01.2016, 2 hours)

In this lecture, the basic concepts of meta-analyses have been introduced. Moreover, a practical exercise was performed using free software, which can be installed on Windows and Mac:

  • Meta-analysis: handouts ppt, slides, book (the library is full of books on meta-analysis, many also eBook).
  • Software Tool (OpenMeta-analist): refer to my email.

Lecture 6 (02.02.2016, 1 hour)

This lecture will start a series of lectures on early stage Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Early HTA refers to a methodological approach that applied reverse engineering to standard methods of HTA in order to inform the design, research and development of innovative health technologies. This allows maximising the impact of innovative healthcare technologies by considering from the very early stage HTA constrains that, if not properly considered, may limit the diffusion of the healthcare innovation.

Lecture 7 (4.02.2016, 2 hours)

Practical lab on systematic literature review with meta-analyses and group project. After reviewing the exercises discussed in the lecture 5, the students will work in group in order to practice on systematic literature review. The lecture covers the following topics: evidence sources (scientific conferences/journal, peer review principles), scientific literature repositories (ISI, SCOPUS, PUBMED), systematic electronic search. In order to prepare the lab, few eLearning contents have been prepared and collected here for students’ reference:

Lecture 8 (9.02.2016, 1 hour)

Lecture 9 (10.02.2016, 2 hours)

This lecture aims to introduce the students to the different study design.

Lecture 10 (16.02.2016, 1 hour)

Lecture 11 (18.02.2016, 2 hours) [Seminar]

This seminar was given by Eng Lucia Bisaccia (Deutsche Bank), which introduced key concepts a Methodological Framework for Data Governance Assessment

Lecture 12 (23.02.2016 and 25.02.2016, 3 hours)

This lecture introduced the main concepts of the Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) and how to organize a HTM service.

  • Lecture: slides, handhouts
  • WHO Guide 1: How to Organize a System of Healthcare Technology Management, link

Lecture 13 (03.03.2016, 2 hours)

This lecture introduced the main topics regarding the electrical safety of medical devices.

Lecture 14 (10.03.2016, 2 hours) [Seminar]

With this lecture, Intellectual Property issues regarding healthcare technologies were introduced and students were given an overview of what are the responsibilities of a Biomedical Engineer warwkin in a Clinical Engineering services

  • Dr Shum Prakash PhD MBA, Business Development Manager, Warwick Ventures: ppt
  • Dr Ernesto Iadanza PhD, Chairman of the Clinical Engineering Division of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering: ppt.

Deepening on Human Facotrs for Health Technology Safety: Book.