The iHEA World Conference 2019 focused on discussing the new horizons of health economics and fostering the dialogue between policy and research. 

The results produced in the first 18 months of the COMED project have been presented in a dedicated session: "Pushing the Boundaries of Existing Methods for Cost and Outcome Analysis of Medical Technologies: First Results from H2020 EU Project COMED".

Aleksandra Torbica opened the session presenting the structure of the project and its overarching objectives (download pdf).

Benedetta Pongiglione presented the results of Work Package 1 "Real World Evidence for Economic Evaluation of Medical Devices" (download pdf).

Oriana Ciani presented the results of Work Package 2 "Surrogate Outcomes in Health Technology Assessment: are they as established are they seem?" (download pdf).

Meilin Möllenkamp presented the results of Work Package 4 on "Geographic Variation in the Utilization of Medical Devices" (download pdf).

Florian Dams presented the results of Work Package 6 on "How Early Dialogues in Medical Devices Contribute to Faster Reimbursement Decisions: A Stakeholder Analysis" (download pdf) .