Main Researcher
Dr. Ifat Abadi-Korek

Economic evaluation has an increasing role in supporting decision-making regarding prioritizing medical technologies for funding (public or other) in many countries around the world.

Economic evaluation is a comparative analysis of alternative medical technologies in terms of cost and effectiveness. The use of economic evaluation allows maximization of the health benefits in a milieu of scarce resources.

Activities in this area focus on developing methods for conducting Cost-Utility Analysis (where the clinical outcome is expressed in terms of Quality Adjusted Life Years- QALYs) suitable to the needs of the Israeli health-care system, research on health-related quality of life and the use of economic evaluation as a decision-supporting tool, and performance of economic evaluation of medical technologies.

• Determination of generic Israeli health related quality of life utilities (phase I)

• Determination of health profiles and values of different disease-states  (phase II)

• Development of guidelines for conducting cost effectiveness analysis using a computerized form (phase III)

• The perception of Pemphigus related quality of life among physicians and patients

• Health related quality of life of Psoriasis patients in Israel
• Cost effectiveness for maximization of health benefits in oncological patients in Israel
• Study of the Wearable Defibrillator: In Advanced Heart-Failure Patients (SWIFT)
• Regulating the Economic Evaluations of Technologies Submitted for Inclusion in the 2011 National List of Health Services

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