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EMA, HTA Bodies & Payers Explore Common Ground On Use Of RWE

 
• By Vibha Sharma

A technical workshop is planned for later this year to identify common “use cases” for real-world evidence that are important to the European Medicines Agency, health technology assessment bodies and payers. 

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Analysis of RWD databases can provide valuable information to support regulatory and reimbursement decisions • Source: Alamy

The European Medicines Agency is working with representatives of EU health technology assessment (HTA) bodies and payers to identify situations where the use of real-world evidence (RWE) might be of interest to all three of them to support their respective decision-making functions.

Once RWE “use cases” that are common to the regulators, HTA bodies and payers are identified, the plan is to...

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