Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Group
Leaders
Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research Unit (PHORU) is a research group with a primary focus on the health technology assessment (HTA) and outcomes research of drug treatments and other healthcare methods, as well as policy measures, and on the assessment of their effectiveness (e.g., from the perspectives of health-related quality of life, healthcare costs, and functional and work capacity). In addition, the research group develops data-driven methods needed in these evaluations. The research utilizes a wide range of different data, such as electronic patient, registry, and omics data.
Currently, there are projects underway that investigate:
- The risk prediction of cardiometabolic and memory diseases, the effectiveness of their prevention and treatment, and the health economic consequences.
- The methods needed in outcomes-based benchmarking of healthcare service providers and their implementation into practice.
- The methods needed in the assessment of Productivity Adjusted Life Years (PALYs) in collaboration with Monash University (Australia).
- The effectiveness of occupational health care.
- The effectiveness (“positive health effects”) and cost-consequences of digital applications and artificial intelligence solutions in healthcare.
The research group collaborates with several different research groups at the University of Eastern Finland and with other national and international universities and research organizations, as well as wellbeing services counties of Finland. The central goal of the research is to produce effectiveness and outcomes information and develop the national healthcare system towards an outcomes-based healthcare system.
Projects
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Center for Social and Health Care Effectiveness -project Finished 01.01.2021 - 30.09.2021
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Improving effectiveness of wellbeing promotion and primary healthcare integration in North Savo (HYPE) 01.09.2023 - 31.12.2025
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Leaders
Professors
Senior Researchers
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Piia Lavikainen
Senior ResearcherSchool of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences -
Emma Aarnio
Senior ResearcherSchool of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences
Post-doctoral Researchers
Doctoral Researchers
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Mella Louhisalmi
Doctoral Researcher -
Eeva Saarelainen
Doctoral ResearcherSchool of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences