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 […]

The Pros and Cons of the QALY: An AJMC Podcast with Jennifer Bright and Lou Garrison

After the panel presentation, “The Controversial QALY: Is There a Middle Ground in the Debate?” was wrapped up at ISPOR, AJMC deputy editor, Jaime Rosenberg, sat down with IVI’s Jennifer Bright and Lou Garrison (assistant director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program at the University of Washington) to drill down further into the […]

IVI Moderated ISPOR Panel: The Controversial QALY

IVI Executive Director, Jennifer Bright, moderated a fascinating panel discussion on the quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) and whether there is room for a middle ground in the discussion about its merits and shortcomings. Lou Garrison, PhD, Assistant Director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program at the University of Washington; Eleanor M. Perfetto, PhD, MS, […]