ISPOR Conferences and Events
Registration is open for ISPOR Europe 2024, the leading European conference for health
economics and outcomes research (HEOR)!
Join us for dedicated opportunities to network with HEOR expert stakeholders, global thought leaders, and your peers to explore this year’s theme, “Generating Evidence Toward Health and Well-Being.” Claim your badge and plan for an unparalleled conference experience featuring transformative short courses, impactful plenaries, enlightening Spotlight sessions, informative breakouts and forums, educational sponsored symposia, engaging poster presentations, lively discussion groups, a vibrant exhibit hall, and more! Add the Digital Conference Pass to your registration for on-demand viewing post-conference! Travel grants are available to support attendance for eligible ISPOR members.
Interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at ISPOR Europe 2024? Showcase your innovations, network with industry leaders, and position your brand as a thought leader through our dynamic Exhibits and Sponsorship Program! Options include exclusive evening event sponsorships, Wi-Fi and conference app sponsorship, and more. Contact sales@ispor.org for details!
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Curated by a global Program Committee, the Summit features expert-led sessions that provide
insights into causal inference and external control arms for comparative effectiveness analyses, the hierarchy of real-world evidence (RWE) studies, and the role of patient registries. Learn more and register here.
Attendees of ISPOR Europe 2024 can enhance their pre-Summit experience by attending in-person morning short courses focused on RWE:
17 November | 8:00 – 12:00 CET
17 November | 8:00 – 12:00 CET
Developing Decision-Grade Real-World Evidence
Learn more and register for these short courses here.
The ISPOR Education Center provides instant access to HEOR education with on-demand programs delivered through a personalized, powerful, and flexible learning platform. Working at their own time and pace, individuals can drive their professional development by growing their knowledge and skills with topical, relevant, and innovative course curricula.
NEW: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews in Comparative Effectiveness Research
At the completion of this online learning module, you will be able to…
- Understand the need for systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis for comparative effectiveness research and healthcare decision making.
- Perform a systematic literature review and understand the statistical methods of combining extracted data
by means of meta-analysis. - Evaluate the advantages and limitations of meta-analysis, appraise meta-analytic reports, and decide whether
to use the results.
Streamlining Systematic Literature Reviews With Software and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
NEW: At the completion of this online learning module, you will be able to…
- Understand the process of developing a search strategy and identifying Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome terms.
- Recognize the concept of active learning and how it can be utilized with AI to improve the screening relevance
of studies. - Identify software solutions to build a systematic review visualization and gain insights from analyzed studies.
View more featured courses, topics covered, and the growing list of courses available at www.ispor.org/EducationCenter
The HEOR Learning Lab™ is ISPOR’s educational resource for professionals who work or have an interest in the field of HEOR. The HEOR Learning Lab provides unlimited, on-demand, educational video content to facilitate learning and innovative approaches in the field from the leading global organization in HEOR.
The HEOR Learning Lab includes high-value content selected from the Society’s conferences, summits, and other seminal events. The easily searchable content is focused on the most topical themes impacting the field, including real-world evidence, patient-centered research, digital health, artificial intelligence and machine learning, health technology assessment, economic methods, healthcare financing, access and policy, learning healthcare systems, and much more. More than 550 on-demand sessions are currently available on the platform!
The following are examples of popular sessions available for viewing today:
Beyond Burden of Illness – Using RWE for Advanced HEOR Analytics
Budget Impact Analysis of Health Interventions
Visit the HEOR Learning Lab at www.ispor.org/LearningLabWelcome
Upcoming ISPOR Short Courses include:
September 4-5 | 10:00AM – 12:00PM EDT (Virtual)
Practical Applications of Large Language Models for Real-World Evidence Generation and HEOR
After completing this course, participants will be able to…
- Evaluate and select the most suitable large language models (LLM) for specific analytical tasks in healthcare.
- Recognize and address ethical and regulatory considerations associated with LLMs and health data.
- Enhance decision-making processes to query health data with LLMs.
September 18-19 | 10:00AM – 12:00PM EDT (Virtual)
Introduction to Clinical Outcome Assessments: Selecting, Modifying, or Developing Fit-for-Purpose Measures After completing this course, participants will be able to…
- Understand the value of measuring a patient-reported health status.
- Recognize different types of clinical outcome assessments (COAs).
- Gain knowledge of what each COA encompasses.
- Understand the properties of a good COA.
- Become familiar with the typical development and evaluation process for COAs.
September 25-26 | 10:00AM – 12:00PM EDT (Virtual)
Understanding Survival Modeling With Application to HTA
After completing this course, participants will be able to…
- Understand relationships between key time-to-event functions and their use in economic modeling.
- Determine alternative parametric survival models employed in cost-effectiveness analyses.
- Consider differences when selecting survival models for cost-effectiveness analyses.
- Recognize differences between partitioned survival and Markov-based cost-effectiveness models.
October 2-3 | 10:00AM – 12:00PM EDT (Virtual)
Introduction to Best Practices for Country Adaptations of Economic Models
After completing this course, participants will be able to…
- Understand the importance of country adaptations at various stages of each pharmaceutical product’s life cycle.
- Identify key country-specific factors that influence health economic evaluations and trigger model customization across countries.
- Determine appropriate data sources for country adaptations to capture accurate and relevant information for use in model adaptation.
- Incorporate country-specific data into existing economic models to estimate the economic impact within a specific target country.
17 November | 8:00 – 12:00 CET (In person at ISPOR Europe 2024)
Introduction to Applied Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for HEOR
After completing this course, participants will be able to…
- • Understand the fundamentals of generative AI, particularly large language models.
- • Navigate ethical and security considerations when employing generative AI in HEOR.
- • Identify situations where generative AI can be used in HEOR.
- • Execute generative AI models into HEOR applications through Python.
17 November | 8:00 – 12:00 CET (In person at ISPOR Europe 2024)
AI-Powered HEOR: Advancing Insights and Decisions with Large Language Models
After completing this course, participants will be able to…
- Discuss the advancement of generative AI and large language models and current applications of generative AI in HEOR.
- Explain the methodologies and tools used in AI-driven economic modeling and their advantages over traditional models.
- Develop strategies for integrating generative AI into regulatory decision making of external control arm.
- Utilize generative AI tools and techniques to perform advanced data analysis, manage large datasets, and synthesize real-world evidence for impactful healthcare solutions.
Learn more about the ISPOR Short Course Program
Upcoming webinars include:
August 22 | 10:00AM – 11:00AM EDT
Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage in Africa: The Role of Health Technology Assessment
By participating in this webinar, attendees will…
- Acquire a deep understanding of health technology assessment (HTA) and universal health coverage (UHC) and their implementation challenges in Africa.
- Gain insights into practical examples of HTA application to inform priority setting and design benefits for UHC.
- Explore best practices in HTA implementation and the use of HTA for advancing UHC in the African context.
September 19 | 10:00AM – 11:00AM EDT
Transferability of Data and Methods to Central and Eastern Europe
By participating in this webinar, attendees will…
- Understand the potential benefits of transferability in methods and data, and considerations for applicability and transferability with the experiences and insights from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
- Explore ways to overcome barriers preventing optimal transferability of methods and data.
- Recognize the main barriers that prevent transferring data and methods in the CEE region.
October 9 | 10:00AM – 11:00AM EST
Conducting Research and Survey Studies in Hard-to-Reach Populations
By participating in this webinar, attendees will…
- Understand the benefits of and barriers to involving hard-to-reach groups in survey and health preference research.
- Identify strategies for engagement of hard-to-reach groups.
- Review case study examples of how hard-to-reach groups have been involved in health preference research and important takeaways in terms of adaptations that can be made to recruitment strategies and survey tasks to improve engagement of hard-to-reach populations.
View upcoming and on-demand ISPOR webinars: www.ispor.org/webinars
