Jennifer Bright Explains How IVI Economic Models Improve Process of Value Assessment

At the National Health Council’s event, Back to School: Patient Community Training on Value Assessment, IVI executive director Jennifer Bright explains the non-profit organization’s mission to make value assessment more relevant to real decision making, how and why patient perspectives must be built into the front end of economic modeling, and how patients and patient […]

Top Three Questions Employers Need to Ask Benefits Consultants

Jennifer Bright writes in Benefits Pro that employers who rely on health plans and vendors to advise them on coverage for drugs or other treatments need to ask several key questions to ensure they are getting the most value out of their consultants’ recommendations. Read the full article here.

IVI Comment Letter on ICER’s Proposed Methods for Curative Therapies

IVI submitted comments to ICER regarding proposed methodological changes for assessments of the value of single or short-term transformative (SST) therapies. IVI emphasized the need for ICER to address the potential use of its findings by decision makers, specifically when short-term budget estimates may discourage investment in therapies with high long-term value, including careful consideration […]

How IVI is Bringing Value to Cancer Care

After the release of the public comments for IVI-NSCLC, Managed Healthcare Executive took a look at IVI’s open-source model focusing on non-small lung cancer and how it will bring healthcare executives insight into value that otherwise wouldn’t exist with traditional models. Read the full article here.

IVI Announces a Request for Proposal (RFP)

IVI is committed to exploring scientifically rigorous methods that improve the practice of value assessment in a collaborative, iterative environment. To that end, we are pleased to announce the call for research proposals that help us advance our mission and demonstrate the applicability of patient-defined factors of value. IVI welcomes proposals from individual researchers as […]

5 Steps to Build an Active Learning System for Value Assessment

In the wake of this year’s ISPOR conference, IVI’s Executive Director, Jennifer Bright, reflects on how to move value assessment from a static snapshot in time to an active learning approach. She discusses the following five steps to improving value assessment: Take the transparency challenge. Embrace flexibility. Allow for iteration. Improve incorporation of non-clinical data. […]

IVI Comments on ICER’s 2020 Value Assessment Framework

As part of the public input process, IVI submitted comments on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review’s (ICER) 2020 Value Assessment Framework. In May, ICER invited public comments as part of their process to update methods that underpin ICER reports. In summary, IVI wrote that value assessment must: • Provide flexible models that can […]