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Data Mining International Partner of the European Commission project VALUeHEALTH
Data Mining International has joined the EU funded project VALUeHEALTH which will deliver a business model and a sustainability plan for developing eHealth Services in Europe. Read More... Back to News
“Decision-making that saves lives” – a new article published by the ZILLION INTERNATIONAL about the flawed QALY approach revealed through the ECHOUTCOME Project
xx edition 2014 Ariel Beresniak, CEO of Data Mining International SA, warns of the perils of bad calculations in standards used in the health sector. One example is the Quality Adjusted Life Years index (QALY) used in the UK by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which, according to a study they conducted, is flawed and should be discontinued. The company -with its broad experience in the health sector- helps companies assess their risks, prioritise and make better use of data. Imagine your life was threatened by a disease. Now imagine that there’s a drug that [...]
PATIENTS DENIED ACCESS TO LIFE-SAVING TREATMENTS DUE TO FLAWED METHODS
The methods used by some countries to decide which medical treatments should be made available to patients are dangerously flawed and should be abandoned. This conclusion is based on the ECHOUTCOME research project funded by the European Commission, and led by Data Mining International, a Swiss independent research agency. The full results, recently published in a peer-reviewed scientific article, highlight major failings in the way that some Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies, such as the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), recommend which treatments should be made available to patients, and warn against this system being [...]
Data Mining International Partner of the European Commission project ASSET
Data Mining International has joined the EU funded project Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plans: mainstreaming Science in Society actions in research (ASSET). Back to News
Full publication of the ECHOUTCOME European Commission project
The full publication revealing the results of the ECHOUTCOME project has been published in September 2014: Beresniak A, Medina-Lara A, Auray JP, De Wever A, Praet JC, Tarricone R, Torbica A, Dupont D, Lamure M, Duru G. Validation of the Underlying Assumptions of the Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Outcome: Results from the ECHOUTCOME European Project. Pharmacoeconomics. 2014 Sep 18. ABSTRACT Validation of the Underlying Assumptions of the Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Outcome: Results from the ECHOUTCOME European Project. Beresniak A, Medina-Lara A, Auray JP, De Wever A, Praet JC, Tarricone R, Torbica A, Dupont D, Lamure M, Duru G. BACKGROUND: Quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) have been used since the 1980s as a standard health outcome measure for conducting cost-utility analyses, which are often inadequately labeled [...]
Interview with Dr Ariel Beresniak by Health Service Journal: Fighting Flu Epidemics
http://www.hsj.co.uk/home/innovation-and-efficiency/fighting-flu-epidemics-the-answers-in-the-numbers/5070566.article