Health Economics
Health Economics
Program Resources
The Health Economics program has transitioned from Common Fund support. For more information please visit the Health Economics main page.
State Health Practice Database for Research (SHPDR)
The SHPDR is a resource of state-level data on health practices that can be used with statistical software, and can be linked with existing health and economic data for hypothesis-driven research. Visit the SHPDR website (link is external).
A SHPDR Launch Webinar was held November 18, 2016, 1-2:30 PM, ET on how the SHPDR can contribute to health economics research and to provide a demonstration of its features. View the webinar video (link is external). Download the video transcript. Download the webinar agenda.
Additional Program Resources
- Diffusion of Medical Procedures and Technology (link is external): Publicly available source providing researchers, payers, regulators, and innovators with metrics quantifying the temporal and regional patterns of diffusion of medical interventions.
- Tufts PACE Clinical Prediction Model Registry (link is external): An online registry of clinical prediction models for cardiovascular disease and other conditions. More than 1,080 such models are currently included in the registry.
- Cost-effectiveness of Genotype-tailored Therapy (link is external): A publicly available discrete event simulation model to estimate clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomic testing strategies under alternate scenarios.
- PriMER Platform: Diffusion of Precision Medicine Technologies: (link is external) A tool to predict the diffusion of personalized medicine tests based on user inputted features.
