Innovative Simulation for Health Care

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is used to inform decision makers on the level of the health care system or at the population level. The consortium IFEDH (Innovative Framework for Evidence based Decision support in Health care) was formed to invent a new strategy to integrate modelling and simulation into the process of HTA, which deals with limited resources and upcoming new technologies. Dynamic and static modeling is getting more and more essential for this process. Simulation can help decision makers to compare various technologies comparing different goal functions on a basis of evidence. Most important for this is a reliable and reproducible process of modeling and computing of simulations. We will present the developed fundamental framework which connects the most important areas for getting decision bases: Developing the PICO questions, data acquisition and evaluating of data, developing models and interpreting the results. IFEDH is funded by The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).