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WORKSHOP: Cost analysis and Return on Investment of Healthcare Interventions (FULL)

***Registration is now closed. If you are interested in attending, please contact Dr. Brown direclty at pbrown3@ucmerced.edu***

Being able to quantify the cost and benefits from health care interventions is critically important for making decisions in today’s healthcare environment. In order to help healthcare providers, Public Health Departments, and researchers understand how to measure and incorporate costs and health outcomes into their decision making, we are offering a two-day workshop on September 24th and 25th, 2018:

  • Day 1: Cost Analysis and Budget Impact Analysis in Healthcare
  • Day 2: Return on Investment and Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare Decision Making

For more information on workshop content, contact Paul Brown at pbrown3@ucmerced.edu. Contact Amelia Johnson at HSRI@ucmerced.edu with registration questions.

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Outcomes

  • Understanding approaches and techniques for conducting a cost of illness or budget impact analysis
  • Understanding of approaches and techniques for quantifying outcomes from healthcare interventions
  • Knowledge of how to combine this information into healthcare decision making using Return on Investment or Cost Effectiveness analysis
  • Continued assistance in completing related projects

Day 1: Cost Analysis and Budget Impact Analysis in Healthcare

Date:   Monday, September 24th
Location:   UC Merced
Presenters:   Paul Brown, Professor of Health Economics and Public Health
Van Do-Reynoso, Director of Public Health, Santa Barbara County
Topics:   Overview of costing methodologies (Resource based costing, costing of hospital services using OSHPD data, and costing of caregivers and informal care)
How to cost healthcare interventions and develop a cost of illness analysis or budget impact analysis

Day 2: Return on Investment and Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare Decision Making

Date:   Tuesday, September 25th
Location:   UC Merced
Presenter:   Paul Brown, Professor of Health Economics and Public Health
Topics:   Options for measuring outcomes or benefits from healthcare interventions
Combining cost and outcome information to identity the Return on Investment or Cost Effectiveness of the intervention
Place of this information in healthcare decision making