Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London welcomes Divya Srivastava to discuss their findings on the systematic use of real-world data and real-world evidence for digital health technologies as part of the research seminar series.
Abstract
Despite the acceleration in the use of digital health technologies across different aspect of the healthcare system, the full potential of real-world data (RWD) and real-world-evidence (RWE) arising from the technologies is not being utilised in decision-making.
They aim to examine current national efforts and future opportunities to systematically use RWD and RWE related to digital health technologies in decision-making in five countries (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom), and to develop a framework for promotion of the systematic use of RWD and RWE.
A scoping review assesses current national efforts, complemented with a three-round consensus building exercise among an international group of experts (n1=44, n2=24, n3=24) to derive key principles.
They find that Estonia and Finland have invested and developed digital health related policies for several years; Germany and Italy are the more recent arrivals, while the United Kingdom falls somewhere in the middle.
Opportunities to promote the systematic use of RWD and RWE were identified for each country. Eight building blocks principles were agreed through consensus, relating to policy scope, institutional role, and data collection.
Promoting post-market surveillance and digital health technology vigilance ought to rely on clarity in scope and data collection with consensus reached on eight principles to leverage RWD and RWE.
About the speaker
Divya Srivastava is a Guest Teacher in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Divya’s background is in health financing, health economics, pharmaceutical policy, and digital health technologies.
She has worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies in Brussels, and for national institutions (Ministry of Finance, Health Canada, Office of Fair Trading and NHS England).
She has provided consultancy advice to international organisations, national governments, and private sector.
She is currently co-leading the Digital Health Unit within LSE Health, a member of the expert panel for Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS)-AI Working Group for NICE and Deputy Editor of the Health Economics Section of the European Health Journal on Imaging Methods and Practice.
Divya holds a BSc Statistics Honours (University of Manitoba, Canada), MA Economics (McMaster University, Canada), MSc International Health Policy (Brian Abel-Smith Award for best dissertation) and a PhD in Health Economics (Merck Scholar) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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