9TH ADRIATIC AND 6TH CROATIAN CONGRESS OF PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH
OPATIJA, CROATIA 11-14 APRIL 2019
Dear Colleague,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to actively participate in the 9th Adriatic and 6th Croatian Congress of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, which will be held in the Conference Park 25/7, located in the beautiful city of Opatija, Croatia, from April 11-14, 2019.
The main objective of this year congress is to intensify and enhance professional and scientific discussions and collaboration between various stakeholders on the following topic:
‘SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING ACCESS TO HEALTCARE INNOVATION IN CEE'
After some years in which we have mostly focused on analysing the situation in CEE, mostly around patient access and equity rights to innovation, and identifying the gaps to more developed EU countries, the main goal of this year Congress is to focus on finding solutions. During these years, the capacity of CEE countries has improved, both at Academia and Government from one side, to Health Technology Industry on the other side. Additionally, and most importantly, Patients capacity to be involved and consulted in this process have also significantly improved, so we believe all pre-requisites have now been met to start focusing on the most optimal solutions for which we need all stakeholders to be at the same table, discussing, agreeing and implementing these solutions, especially in the following area, being also the sub-topics of this year’s congress:
- Listening and learning from Patients
- Government willingness to invest in health innovation
- Sharing best practices in optimal national approaches in assessing new technology
- Using and sharing Big Data to improve healthcare decision making and patients outcomes
- Measuring the success through achieved health outcomes
- Developing SMART and innovative healthcare strategies focused to outcomes
However, the full congress agenda will also comprise other important topics as well, such as development of healthcare policies, pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement, comparative efficacy studies, outcomes research, value of health and health interventions, and many others.
Our Congress has established itself as the forum (i) to share research and help advance the science of health economics within the Adriatic region, (ii) to give opportunity for networking and interacting, and (iii) to get involved in debating controversial and complex issues of the health care involving a range of stakeholders. We are proud that during the past 8 years our annual Congress has become a reference point in the field of pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research in our region since we are not shying away from explicitly discussing pressing challenges, such as conditions of severe economic constraints within our jurisdictions.
We encourage your participation by submitting research podium and poster papers. As every year, we will organize half day educational course prior to the Congress and a number of plenary sessions, round table discussion, issue panels, and research presentations.
It is important to note that we, as the organizers, will ensure participation of a wide range of stakeholders within the health care: the healthcare professionals (local, regional and international), members of academia, different associations, regulatory and payer authorities, politicians, and last but not least the pharmaceutical industry.
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CONGRESS PRESIDENTS:
Prof. Dinko Vitezić, Croatia
Prof. Igor Francetić, Croatia -
CONGRESS DATE AND VENUE:
April 11-14, 2019
Conference Park 25/7, Viktora Cara Emina 6, Opatija, Croatia -
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts submission closes: March 18, 2019
Early registration deadline: March 18, 2019