Synopsis of current research projects
Health economics
Nudges to Optimise Prescriber Behaviour of Physicians
Project leaders: Viktoria Hofer
Project team: Viktoria Hofer, Jule Anna Pleyer
Duration: Mid-April 2025 – November 2025 (3 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
High tech medicine
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Evaluation of the Clinical and Organizational Impacts of selected AI Applications in Hospitals
Project leaders: Judit Erdös
Project team: Judit Erdös, Lena Grabenhofer
Duration: Mid- April – Mid- November 2025 (6 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
Health economics
Measures to Improve Cost Data Use for Health Economic Studies and Decision-Making – Overview of Existing Frameworks and Status Quo in Austria
Project leaders: Christoph Strohmaier
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier, Judit Erdös
Duration: April – November 2025 (5 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
Prevention and screening
Structured Medication Review for Polypharmacy
Project leaders: Reinhard Jeindl
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Julia Kern
Duration: April 2025 – November 2025 (4 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
High tech medicine
Human Genetic Testing in Austria: An Overview of Reviews of Massive Parallel Sequencing (MPS) - Application Areas, Clinical Evidence, and Implications for Healthcare
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project team: Gregor Goetz, Reinhard Jeindl, Alba Colicchia
Duration: April 2025 – November 2025 (7 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
Psychological & psychiatric interventions
Transition from Child and Adolescent to Adult Mental Health Services: Analysis and Comparison of International Models
Project leaders: Romy Schönegger
Project team: Romy Schönegger, Yui Hidaka
Duration: February 2025 - September 2025
Language: English (with German summary)
Psychological & psychiatric interventions
FALCO: Fighting Addictions, improving Lives: COmprehensive drug rehabilitation with music
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Lucia Gassner
Authors: Gassner L1, Bidzan-Bluma I2, Makurat D2, Karshikofffrom B3, Magel F4, Svensden TS5, Bieleninik L2, Erga AH3, Zechmeister-Koss I1
Affiliations: 1Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment GmbH, Austria; 2University of Gdansk, Poland; 3University of Stavanger, Norway; 4Anton Proksch Institute, Austria; 5Regional Center for Substance Use Research, Norway
Research area: Psychological & psychiatric interventions
Project leader: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Principal investigator: Catherine Lourdes Dy (NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS)
Further project partners: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS (NO, coordinator), Universitetet I Bergen (NO), Helse Stavanger HF (NO), Sykehuset Innlandet HF (NO), Universität Wien (AT), Stiftung Anton Proksch Institut Wien (AT), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (AT), HAT Austria – Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment GmbH (AT), Herzog College (IL), Bar Ilan University (IL), Universita Degli Studi Di Pavia (IT), Uniwersytet Gdanski (PL), Fundacio Institut d’Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge (ES), Universitat de Girona (ES), Fundacio Institut d’Investigacio Biomedica de Girona Doctor Josep Trueta (ES), Fundació Sanitària d’Igualda (ES), Universität Zürich (CH)
This AIHTA third-party funding is part of a Horizon-Europe project (grant number 101155881)
Duration: January 2025 to December 2029
Language: English
High tech medicine
Bewertung medizinischer Einzelleistungen – MEL 2025
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project co-operation: AIHTA staff for individual reviews
Duration: November 2024 – March 2025
European collaboration
ASSESS-DHT: Development and Harmonisation of Methodologies for Assessing Digital Health Technologies in Europe (2024-2026)
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Gregor Goetz, Yui Hidaka
Duration: 01/2024 – 12/2026
Language: English
Health economics
Establishing a Reference Unit Costs catalogue for the optimized evaluation and planning of mental healthcare in Vienna (STREAMLINE)
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Christoph Strohmaier
Principal investigator: Judit Simon (MUW)
This third-party funded project is part of a WWTF project in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna (MUW) - Centre for Public Health/Department of Health Economics, Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, AT; Universidad Loyola Andaluciá, ES.
Duration: April 2023 to December 2025