Oh, Vienna!

This week I’m in beatiful Vienna for Ispor Europe, which is always a big deal around HTA… The last two, of course, have been mainly online, which was OK — but ISPOR is a big conference, so having so many people online didn’t really work that well… Plus, it’s got a feeling of “reunion” to it — despite it being so big, once you go for you few times, there’s every chance you’ll know a million people next time…

The schedule is always busy — this time, I think I’ve taken it to the next level: we’re doing (we being me, Felicity Lamrock, Rose Hart and Howard Thom) a short pre-conference course. That is scheduled for a Sunday 8am! Which once you go past the very early start, it’s actually nice — and we have quite a few people (not just there pretending to be asleep — they’re actually asking questions!), which is very nice. My part was a quick run-through BCEA — my slides are here.

Then, I’m also in a panel, discussing the use of “real world evidence”. This is also very interesting and very much related to our paper on “Blendend Survival” curves, which has just come out. Panels at ISPOR are usually very busy, so each one of us is doing a very quick presentation — my 5 slides are here.

I had a quick look at the programme and there are a bunch of sessions I also look forward to going — including one where fellow ConVOI-er Natalia will talk VoI. While I was coming in today, I saw this 👇 on a Vienna’s wall, which I thought was a nice sign…