PORIB focuses on demonstrating the efficiency of a product in relation to its cost, as well as its benefits with respect to the health of patients and society. The means used are:

• Studies of use of resources and cost analysis
• Studies on the cost of the illness
• Cost minimization, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analyses
• Budget impact analysis
• Modeling: decision analysis studies and Markov models
• Coordination between advisory boards of experts, leaders, committees, and work groups
• Projects of health-care management and pathology management studies; Performance, coordination and adaptation of clinical practice guidelines; Clinical-economic guidelines for decision making
• Critical review of economic studies published by other groups
• Manuscript preparation services for scientific publications (in English or Spanish). Monographs and books on Economic Evaluation and Health Outcomes Research
• Diffusion and publication of clinical and economic results: conferences, presentations and coordination of congresses.
• Programs of education for patients or patients' organizations.
• Selection of Human Resources in the areas of Biomedical Investigation and Economic Evaluation of Health Interventions.