Opinions do matter in Healthcare: Structured Expert Elicitation – A statistical approach to decision making

Healthcare decision-making is complex, often requiring choices about treatments, technologies, or policies based on limited evidence.
Structured Expert Elicitation (SEE) has emerged as a powerful approach for addressing these gaps by eliciting expert judgments.
Empowering Health technology assessments through Population-adjusted indirect comparisons

As health technology assessment (HTA) becomes increasingly central to healthcare decision-making, population-adjusted indirect comparisons (PAICs) have emerged as critical tools. These methods allow researchers to compare treatments across trials with varying populations, addressing situations where head-to-head comparisons are unavailable or impractical. Here, we will examine the development of PAICs, their role in network meta-analysis (NMA), and the ongoing debates around their application.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Systematic Literature Review

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in recent years has brought about a revolution in the scientific community with its ability to mimic the human intellect and behavior. While AI is a computer algorithm that can think and act like humans based on what data is being fed into it, ML enables machines to learn from past data or experiences without being explicitly programmed.
From Compassion to Cure: Caregiver’s Quality of Life as a Treatment Success Yardstick in Clinical Trials

In the realm of healthcare, there exists a group of unsung heroes whose influence extends far beyond the walls of hospitals and clinics. These everyday champions, known as caregivers, invest not only their time but also their hearts into the well-being of those they support.
Champions of Healthcare: Why Community Health Workers Deserve More Recognition

Introductory blog on the importance of community health workers in achieving universal health coverage and strengthening global health. This blog is based on author’s personal experience.
The “Proportionate Approach Route” for Technology Appraisal by NICE

The innovation of the new treatments has outpaced the rate at which NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) appraises the treatments via its existing method of appraisal. NICE recently announcing taking a “proportionate approach” to technology appraisals is a landscape change ensuring faster guidance and efficiency gains.
Real World Evidence: From Vision to Reality

Framework of Developing Real world Evidence (RWE) There has been a burgeoning bid about the use of Real-World data in healthcare. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released the NICE real-world evidence framework on 23rd June 2022 which comprehensively deals with the use of real-world data to remove gaps in data, […]
Cost of war on Global Health: A short commentary

Although conflicts have existed since the beginning of human civilization, 21st century saw a surge in mass violence, wars, genocide and continued conflict. In 2008 alone, 345 conflicts were ongoing worldwide, of which 134 (39%) involved large-scale violence resulting in millions of deaths.
Antimicrobial Resistance: A threat to the world! But, how does the UK’s ‘Netflix-style’ payment model appeal to roll out new antimicrobials and combat AMR?

This blog covers the latest developments in the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) space and how the UK’s recently approved ‘Netflix-style’ subscription-based payment model can work as an example to the world to reverse the decline in the antibiotics category.
Blockchain in Healthcare

No matter how reliable a brand is: from manufacturer to retailer there could be at least 6 different parties (manufacturer, packer, mover, chain of distributors, wholesaler, retailer) who carried your product before it reached you. So is it the right time to change our idea of trust? This is exactly what a blockchain is trying to resolve everywhere. A trust issue.