- Research areas
- Health economics
Health economics
AIHTA health economic projects address issues of efficient resource use focussing on benefit and safety for patients. The analyses are intended to provide sound evidence for health policy decisions by considering economic conditions, most importantly limited resources.
Research projects
Telecardiology for heart failure patients: Benefit assessment and evaluation concept for telemedicine-supported care programs in Austria
Project team: Michaela Riegelnegg
& Michal Stanak
Project lead: Michal Stanak
Duration: April – November 2025
Language: English (with German summary)
Preparatory Work for an Austrian Health Economic Guideline
Project leaders: Sarah Wolf
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier, Diana Szivakova, Sarah Wolf
Duration: February 2025 – January 2026
Language: English (with German summary)
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)
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)
Threshold values in health economic evaluations and decision-making
Project leaders: Christoph Strohmaier
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier
Internal Review: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Duration: March to September 2024
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 163: https://eprints.aihta.at/1549/
Economic dimensions of community nursing: a systematic literature review
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Katharina Buzath
Duration: January to September 2023
Language: German (with Englisch summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 153: https://eprints.aihta.at/1470/
The project was commissioned by the ‘Gesundheit Österreich GmbH’, supported by sources from the ‚Agenda Gesundheitsförderung‘.
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
ThemenCheck Medizin (IQWIG): Depression in children and adolescents - Does psychotherapy lead to better results compared to other therapies? (HT19-04) (Health Economics and Ethics)
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier
Duration: January 2020 – September 2020
Language: German
In co-operation with: Department for Evidence Based Medicine / DUK
Lung cancer screening in risk groups Systematic review(s) of effectiveness and utility (part 1) Costs and budgetary consequences (part 2)
Project leaders: Claudia Wild (part 1), Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss (part 2)
Project team:
- Thomas Semlitsch (IAVEM) & EUnetHTA partners (IQWIG, potentially others) (part 1)
- Christan Böhler, Sarah Wolf (part 2)
Duration: May 2020 – November 2020
Language: English with German summary
Publications:
HTA Project report No. 132a: http://eprints.aihta.at/1282/ (part 1)
HTA Projektbericht Nro 132b: https://eprints.aihta.at/1283 (part 2)
Molecular genetic diagnostics as a triage mechanism in cardiology using the example of familial hypercholesterolemia: Organisational and ethical implications (part 1) and economic effects (part 2)
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier
Project lead: Melanie Walter (part 1), Christoph Strohmaier (part 2)
Duration: May 2020 – October 2020
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project report No. 130: http://eprints.aihta.at/1281/
