Digital Divide
The digital divide is the gap between people who can access, use and benefit from digital technology and those who cannot, often along social lines.
Encyclopaedia
Explore comprehensive, evidence-informed explanations of key health economics concepts, including their development, application and relationships to other concepts. Published entries are validated through human expert review.
Concepts, entries and ontology terms
A concept page is a published entry on the wiki. Some concepts also have a full encyclopaedia article. The Health Economics Ontology (HEO) holds every concept, including dictionary terms without an article, so it is larger than the list of published pages. The knowledge graph shows how concepts relate to each other.
Digital Equity
Digital equity in health is fair access to digital health care, with the devices, connection and skills to use it, and fair outcomes across social groups.
Digital Evidence Framework
A digital evidence framework sets the evidence a digital health technology should show before it is bought, scaled to its clinical and financial risk.
Digital Health
Digital health is the use of digital technologies, such as apps, wearables, telemedicine and AI, to improve health and the delivery of health care.
Digital Implementation
Digital implementation is the work of putting a digital health technology into routine care with workflow redesign, integration, training and governance.
Digital Interoperability
Digital interoperability is the ability of different digital health systems to exchange data and use it with a shared meaning, without manual re-entry.
Digital Therapeutic
A digital therapeutic (DTx) is health software that treats or alleviates a disease by delivering a medical intervention of proven therapeutic benefit.
DRG Creep
DRG creep is a rise in recorded hospital case mix, and so in DRG payments, that comes from coding changes rather than from sicker or more complex patients.
Early Health Technology Assessment
Early health technology assessment (early HTA) estimates a health technology's potential value during development to guide design, research and investment.
Entity Resolution
Entity resolution is the data analytics task of finding records that refer to the same patient, study or other entity in health data, and linking them.
Equity Analysis
Equity analysis is the assessment of whether health, access to care and health care payments are fairly distributed across population groups.
Evidence Adaptation
Evidence adaptation is modifying an economic evaluation from one country or setting so that it reflects another setting's costs, practice and population.
Evidence Synthesis
Evidence synthesis is the systematic combining of results from several studies to estimate the effects, risks and other inputs that HTA decisions need.
Evidence-Based Decision Making
Evidence-based decision making is the systematic use of the best research evidence, with values and context, to make health policy and coverage decisions.
Experience Rating
Experience rating sets health insurance premiums from the insured group's or person's own past claims, so buyers with costlier claims histories pay more.
Failure to Rescue
Failure to rescue (FTR) is a hospital quality measure giving the share of patients who die after developing a complication, most often following surgery.
Falls Rate
Falls rate is inpatient falls per 1,000 occupied bed days (patient days), a hospital patient safety indicator also reported for injurious falls.
Fee-for-Service
Fee-for-service (FFS) is a provider payment method in which a purchaser pays separately for each item of care, such as a consultation, test or procedure.
Financial Barrier
A financial barrier is a cost that stops or delays people using health or social care, such as charges, travel or lost pay, when they cannot afford it.
Geographic Accessibility of Healthcare
Accessibility is the dimension of health care access concerned with how easily people can reach services, given location, travel time, distance and cost.