October 13, 2025 - October 16, 2025
Learn and practice health economics principles for impactful study design
This course is designed to teach clinicians and new researchers how to incorporate health economics into study design and data analysis. Participants will first review the basic principles and concepts of health economic evaluations, then discuss methods to collect and calculate costs, determine the economic impact of clinical outcomes, and assign costs to healthcare resources.
Technical topics include:
Core principles of health economic evaluations.
Techniques for collecting and calculating costs of alternatives.
Methods to determine the economic impact of clinical outcomes.
Assigning costs to healthcare resource utilization.
Demonstration of health economic models: cost-minimization, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-utility, and budget impact analysis.
Decision analysis, sensitivity analysis, and discounting techniques.
This course includes concepts and tools that can be immediately applied, including:
Exercises in collecting and calculating healthcare costs.
Practical demonstrations of different health economic models and techniques.
Step-by-step practice in decision analysis, sensitivity analysis, and discounting.
Real-world examples to connect theory with practical application.
This course is suitable for those with little or no experience in health economics, providing foundational knowledge and skills to integrate economic principles into research and clinical practice.
LEVEL: Introductory
TRACK: Economic Evaluation
Faculty
Schedule:
LENGTH: 8 Hours | Course runs 4 consecutive days, 2 hours each day
ISPOR short courses are designed to enhance knowledge and techniques in core health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) topics as well as emerging trends in the field. Short courses offer 4 or 8 hours of premium scientific education and an electronic course book. Active attendee participation combined with our expert faculty creates an immersive and impactful learning experience. Short courses are not recorded and are only available during the live course presentation.