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Mechanistic modeling can bridge evidence gaps in health technology assessment (HTA) by enabling personalized predictions and real-world evidence synthesis. Enhanced collaboration is key to integrating these models into HTA decision-making.

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  • Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
  • Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Background:

  • Current health technology assessment (HTA) faces challenges with evidence gaps, hindering timely prediction of long-term individual patient outcomes in real-world practice.
  • Appraising medical products (MPs) requires effective cross-stakeholder communication and engagement, which can be enhanced through advanced modeling and simulation techniques.
  • Model-informed drug development (MIDD) has introduced mechanistic modeling, offering potential for HTA applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the utility of mechanistic modeling in addressing critical questions within health technology assessment (HTA).
  • To discuss how mechanistic modeling can support the translation of clinical trial data into real-world evidence, enabling personalized predictions.
  • To identify stakeholder contributions and needs during the appraisal phase and suggest how mechanistic modeling strategies can meet these requirements.

Main Methods:

  • Review and discussion of concrete examples where mechanistic models can address specific HTA-related questions.
  • Analysis of stakeholder contributions and needs in the medical product appraisal process.
  • Exploration of mechanistic modeling strategies and reporting frameworks relevant to HTA.

Main Results:

  • Mechanistic modeling, particularly from model-informed drug development (MIDD), offers capabilities for extrapolation and personalized predictions, crucial for bridging trial data to real-world evidence.
  • Mechanistic models can address HTA questions by synthesizing data and supporting health-economic projections.
  • Barriers to integrating mechanistic modeling in HTA include lack of validation frameworks, inconsistent stakeholder support, limited generalizable use cases, and absence of appropriate incentives.

Conclusions:

  • Intensified collaboration between regulatory authorities, drug developers, and modelers is essential to overcome existing barriers.
  • Implementing mechanistic models centrally in evidence generation, synthesis, and appraisal can leverage the totality of mechanistic and clinical evidence for informed decision-making.
  • Mechanistic modeling holds significant potential to enhance the transparency, timeliness, and individual-level predictive power of health technology assessment.