November 2024 HTA ESIG meeting - minutes

· November 6, 2024

SIG meetings

Date/time

06-November-2024 13:00-14:00 CET

Agenda

  1. Admin updates
    • R Consortium HTA Working Group kickoff
    • HTA ESIG github webpage
  2. Member/subteam/guest driven topic
    • HTA handbook review update (Ash)
    • HTA operating model survey (Ursula)
  3. EU HTA – info sharing and updates
    • 29-Nov-2024 EU HTA Stakeholder network meeting
    • JSC medicinal products implementing acts (Lara)
  4. Events and conferences
    • PSI 2025 including session proposals
    • ISPOR EU 2024
  5. AOB

1. Admin updates

R Consortium HTA WG kickoff

  • 45 joined kick-off call
  • Workstreams
    1. Mapping of stakeholders, landscape and opportunities: to strengthen the shared understanding of challenges and potential solutions to accelerate the use of R in HTA production and assessment work
    2. Mapping of HTA analytics-related R Packages: develop a comprehensive inventory of R packages related to HTA analytics with useful information and application examples, facilitating their use and integration into daily practice
  • Next meeting 27-Nov-2024 17:00-18:00
  • Interested? https://r-consortium.org/posts/announcing-health-technology-assessment-HTA-working-group/

ESIG github page

  • https://htaesig.github.io/
  • Agendas, minutes etc will go here

ESIG leaders meeting, November 28

Late November PSI scientific committee meeting

2. Member/subteam/guest driven topic

HTA hand book review

  • Ash and subteam shared 01-Nov-2024 HTA handbook v3.0 for review
  • Feedback and next steps
    • A bit of followup work for subteam
    • If followup questions, will reach out
    • Can’t/won’t add new subsections at this point (do later). In particular, nothing about EU HTA for now
    • Lara: list of ideas at the end of the current document? Aligning handbook to potential 2025 training course
      • Anders: alternative to list at end of document = github/discussion page
    • Ursula/Anders: instead of major releases, explore more collaborative formats for handbook (markdown/quarto document)
    • Target release: January 2025
    • Training course: BBS setting, possibly. Jan McKendrick, Ash volunteers. Jan: there was a course back in 2018 that we can take inspiration from.
    • ACTION Lara/Anders: put the training course on the agenda e.g. for January SIG meeting once HTA handbook done

2. Member/subteam/guest driven topic

Survey (Ursula)

  • Ways of working, resources etc within companies
  • Opportunity to learn from each other, arguments to push our teams forward in respective organizations
  • Anders/Lara: sharing via EFSPI Leaders Group to ensure 1 response per company? Ursula: consultants and CROs not in scope for the survey.
  • ACTION: Ursula to share survey with SIG members (through Anders/Lara) for comments/feedback on structure, due date 20-Nov-2024

3. EU HTA – info sharing and updates

29-Nov-2024 EU HTA Stakeholder network meeting, Brussels

  • Accepted for stakeholder presentation: Open-source statistical code and its potential for EU HTA JCA by EFSPI

JSC medicinal products implementing acts (Lara)

  • ACTION Lara: post about this on SIG LinkedIn grouo </mmark>

4. Events and conferences

PSI 2025 sessions

  • Navigating Non-Randomized Data in Health Technology Assessments: Methods, Bias Quantification, and Real-World Case Studies (HTA ESIG parallel session proposal, Katrin/Mona)
    • See abstract draft shared via email, there is a good idea about speakers for 1st and 2nd talk
    • ACTION all: you have ideas for a case study/3rd talk about non-randomized data where there was acceptance by (non-German) agencies, contact Katrin/Mona
  • Structured elicitation (HTA ESIG/historical data ESIG collab session, Min-Hua)
    • ACTION Lara: talk to Min-Hua about speaker suggestion HTA/access
  • Communicating statistics and uncertainty in HTA (townhall session, Anders/Lara)
    • Milana: what about communicating ()uncertainty in) cost-effectiveness models to non-experts, even more difficult? Lara: agreed, possibly some coverage from HTAB speaker, alternatively pick up in panel part
  • Extrapolation using external data (parked for PSI 2025 but discuss for e.g. ISCB or webinar, Arthur)
  • Contributed submissions by SIG members?
  • ACTION: Katrin/Mona + Min-Hua proceed with session abstracts for sessions on non-randomized data/structured elicitation

4. Events and conferences

ISPOR EU 17-Nov to 20-Nov, Barcelona

  • See agenda email for November SIG meeting for how to join the ISPOR EU whatsapp channel, to connect with SIG members

Other events

  • The EU HTA Regulation: Webinar for health technology developers of medicinal products. Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (CET) https://health.ec.europa.eu/events/eu-hta-regulation-webinar-health-technology-developers-medicinal-products-2024-11-15_en