CADTH Symposium Presentations - On-demand presentations including "Artificial Intelligence in Outcomes Research: A Systematic Review to Inform Decision Makers" are available for registrants in the "All sessions" tab on the CADTH Symposium website. These presentations will be available from today November 24th, 2020 to March 21st, 2021.
CADTH Symposium 2020 Quality HTA is pleased to announce the presentation of "Artificial Intelligence in Outcomes Research: A Systematic Review to Inform Decision Makers" at the CADTH (virtual) Symposium on November 9th and 10th, 2020. This post will be updated as soon as the on-demand presentations would be available on the Symposium website. [...]
SMDM Congress Quality HTA is pleased to announce the presentation of "Artificial Intelligence in Outcomes Research Studies" at SMDM (virtual) Congress 2020. This pre-recorded presentation would be available for registrants on the four Tuesdays of October.
A Portable Antigen Test for COVID-19 Portable, fast, cheap, sensitivity of 97.1% and specificity of 98.5%, with a mobile app for Android and iPhone. A great option for indoor public places and going back to our previous daily life! Ref: Financial Post
Real-World Evidence (RWE) In The HTA Process With the significant rise in treatment cost, an increase of the number of drugs and the pressure of the treatments for special conditions and rare diseases, the regulatory and reimbursement systems in Canada, as one of the pioneers in this area, are going to collaboratively publish a framework [...]
INAHTA Database A great free platform to search over 16,000 ongoing and completed HTA records from 120 HTA producers across the world for those who have experienced the challenges of the CRD database! Useful for governments, the life-science industry, researchers and consultants. https://www.inahta.org/hta-database/
PMPRB News The PMPRB regulation was supposed to be implemented on July 1st, 2020 but has been postponed to Jan 1st, 2021 and a new draft is supposed to be published on the week of June 15, 2020. (Ref.) Six months delay in implementation of PMPRB new regulations. Is it because of COVID-19, the feedbacks [...]
COVID 19, Interventional Studies - Sponsors and Health Interventions Interventional studies on COVID-19 are mainly sponsored by non-industry organizations. The industry has sponsored interventional studies only in the US, China and the UK so far which means the industry is not responsive in developing clinical trials. Considering the majority of studies are [...]
COVID-19, Interventional Studies Across the Globe Interventional studies on COVID-19 across the globe based on Global Clinical Trials and ClinicalTrials.gov by March 23, 2020 More is coming ...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Tax in Canada Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe including Canada. Three of the potential impacts of this pandemic on taxpayers, businesses, the provincial and federal governments. The economic impact of Coronavirus looks to be "epidemic" now but can be "pandemic" if controlling and prevention are not taken seriously. [...]