Health Technology Assessment And Health Policy Making In Europe

Author : Marcial Velasco Garrido
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289042932

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Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy-making in Europe by Marcial Velasco Garrido Pdf

New technologies with the potential to improve the health of populations are continuously being introduced. But not every technological development results in clear health gains. Health technology assessment provides evidence-based information on the coverage and usage of health technologies, enabling them to be evaluated properly and applied to health care efficaciously, promoting the most effective ones while also taking into account organizational, societal and ethical issues. This book reviews the relationship between health technology assessment and policy-making, and examines how to increase the contribution such research makes to policy- and decision-making processes. By communicating the value and potential of health technology assessment to a wider audience, both within and beyond decision-making and health care management, it aims ultimately to contribute to improve the health status of the population through the delivery of optimum health services.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Office for Official Publications of European Communities
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111327396

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Health Technology Assessment in Europe by Anonim Pdf

Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. Health Technology Assessment in Europe - 3. Conclusions - 4. Appendix.

Author : Corinna Sorenson,Michael Drummond,Panos Kanavos
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789289071833

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Ensuring Value for Money in Health Care by Corinna Sorenson,Michael Drummond,Panos Kanavos Pdf

This report addresses the concepts and controversy surrounding health technology assessment in Europe, with a particular focus on selected Member States including Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is intended to identify and address current considerations regarding HTA methodological and process issues related to the prioritization and financing of modern health care. In particular, it describes the processes and challenges for identifying and prioritizing assessments; assesses and compares current assessment methods and procedures; and highlights the barriers to effective implementation. The report also ascertains the roles and terms of engagement of key stakeholders, and captures the opportunities and challenges for the use of HTA guidance in general priority-setting, decision-making and health-care provision.

Author : OECD,World Health Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264805903

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Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies by OECD,World Health Organization Pdf

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Author : Juan E. del Llano-Señarís,Carlos Campillo-Artero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319150048

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Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of their Unstable Crossroads by Juan E. del Llano-Señarís,Carlos Campillo-Artero Pdf

This book disentangles the issues in connection with the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and its interface with health policy. It highlights the factors that should shape its progress in the near future. Interdisciplinary and critical views from a number of professionals are put together in a prescient order to cast some light and make recommendations as to the next steps HTA should take to be fit for purpose. A wealth of documents dealing with HTA have been published over the last three decades. HTA allegedly is one of the bedrocks of regulation and medical decision making. However, counter vailing visions contend that geographical variations in the role that HTA is actually playing within countries pinpoints specific room for improvement. Given our social preferences, cherry-picking HTA’s features and successes over the last decades moves it away from its possibility frontier. Some of the most noteworthy hindrances that HTA faces, in several countries, to making headway towards its consolidation as an efficient tool for regulation and decision making are as follows: insufficient resources, delays in assessment, inadequate priority setting, regulatory capture, public distrust, actual influence on regulatory decisions, the need for strengthening international cooperation and harmony, the lack of sound and consistent assessments of diagnostic tests, medical devices and surgical innovations and limited dissemination. Time has come for HTA to take a renewed stand. There is a pressing need to submit HTA to in-depth critical scrutiny.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789240020665

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Institutionalizing health technology assessment mechanisms by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. David Banta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical care, Cost of
ISBN : OCLC:1111124236

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Health Technology Assessment in Europe by H. David Banta Pdf

Health technology assessment is becoming more an important force in Europe, especially in some countries. However, much remains to be done. Most health care interventions are not evaluated or are inadequately evaluated. The contribution of health care to health status is mostly undocumented. There are many beneficial and cost-effective technologies that are not fully deployed for the benefit of the public. The HTA-EUROPE project was funded by Directorate General V of the European Commission during the period 1996-1998 to examine the situation with HTA in Europe and to propose developments for the future, including possibilities of improving co-ordination. The main method of the project involved commissioning papers on the 15 countries of the European Union, plus Switzerland. A common outline was developed and authors were urged to follow the outline to the extent possible. The outline focused on the existing health policy and health system structure and its real or potential relation to health technology assessment. papers were drafted, reviewed critically, revised, and finalised. The final papers are presented in this report. The main conclusion of the report is that it would be beneficial for the health care systems of Europe for the European Commission to assist the establishment of a co-ordinating mechanism for HTA at the European level. What is being proposed is not a new European Agency. The recommendation is to utilise and help strengthen the existing network under the principle of subsidiarity.

Author : Laura Sampietro-Colom,Janet Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319392059

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Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment by Laura Sampietro-Colom,Janet Martin Pdf

A timely work describing how localized hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA) complements general, ‘arms-length’ HTA agency efforts, and what has been the collective global impact of HB-HTA across the globe. While HB-HTA has gained significant momentum over the past few years, expertise in the field, and information on the operation and organization of HB-HTA, has been scattered. This book serves to bring this information together to inform those who are currently working in the field of HTA at the hospital, regional, national or global level. In addition, this book is intended for decision-makers and policy-makers with a stake in determining the uptake and decommissioning of new and established technologies in the hospital setting. HTA has traditionally been performed at the National/Regional level by HTA Agencies, typically linked to governments. Yet hospitals are the main entry door for most health technologies (HTs). Hospital decision-makers must undertake multiple high stakes investment and disinvestment decisions annually for innovative HTs, usually without adequate information. Despite the existence of arms-length HTA Agencies, inadequate information is available to hospital decision-makers either because relevant HTA reports are not yet released at the time of entry of new technologies to the field, or because even when the report exists, the information contained is insufficient to clarify the contextualized informational needs of hospital decision makers. Therefore, there has recently been a rising trend toward hospital-based HTA units and programs. These units/programs complement the work of National/Regional HTA Agencies by providing the key and relevant evidence needed by hospital decision makers in their specific hospital context, and within required decision-making timelines. The emergence of HB-HTA is creating a comprehensive HTA ecosystem across health care levels, which creates better bridges for knowledge translation through relevance and timeliness.

Author : Karen M. Facey,Helle Ploug Hansen,Ann N.V. Single
Publisher : Springer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811040689

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Patient Involvement in Health Technology Assessment by Karen M. Facey,Helle Ploug Hansen,Ann N.V. Single Pdf

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to involving patients in health technology assessment (HTA). Defining patient involvement as patient participation in the HTA process and research into patient aspects, this book includes detailed explanations of approaches to participation and research, as well as case studies. Patient Involvement in HTA enables researchers, postgraduate students, HTA professionals and experts in the HTA community to study these complementary ways of taking account of patients’ knowledge, experiences, needs and preferences. Part I includes chapters discussing the ethical rationale, terminology, patient-based evidence, participation and patient input. Part II sets out methodology including: Qualitative Evidence Synthesis, Discrete Choice Experiments, Analytical Hierarchy Processes, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Deliberative Methods, Social Media Analysis, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, patients as collaborative research partners and evaluation. Part III contains 15 case studies setting out current activities by HTA bodies on five continents, health technology developers and patient organisations. Each part includes discussion chapters from leading experts in patient involvement. A final chapter reflects on the need to clearly define the goals for patient involvement within the context of the HTA to identify the optimal approach. With cohesive contributions from more than 80 authors from a variety of disciplines around the globe, it is hoped this book will serve as a catalyst for collaboration to further develop patient involvement to improve HTA. "If you’re not involving patients, you're not doing HTA!" - Dr. Brian O’Rourke, President and CEO of CADTH, Chair of INAHTA

Author : H. David Banta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical care, Cost of
ISBN : OCLC:476071383

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Health Technology Assessment in Europe by H. David Banta Pdf

Health technology assessment is becoming more an important force in Europe, especially in some countries. However, much remains to be done. Most health care interventions are not evaluated or are inadequately evaluated. The contribution of health care to health status is mostly undocumented. There are many beneficial and cost-effective technologies that are not fully deployed for the benefit of the public. The HTA-EUROPE project was funded by Directorate General V of the European Commission during the period 1996-1998 to examine the situation with HTA in Europe and to propose developments for the future, including possibilities of improving co-ordination. The main method of the project involved commissioning papers on the 15 countries of the European Union, plus Switzerland. A common outline was developed and authors were urged to follow the outline to the extent possible. The outline focused on the existing health policy and health system structure and its real or potential relation to health technology assessment. papers were drafted, reviewed critically, revised, and finalised. The final papers are presented in this report. The main conclusion of the report is that it would be beneficial for the health care systems of Europe for the European Commission to assist the establishment of a co-ordinating mechanism for HTA at the European level. What is being proposed is not a new European Agency. The recommendation is to utilise and help strengthen the existing network under the principle of subsidiarity.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Who Medical Device Technical
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241501367

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Health Technology Assessment of Medical Devices by World Health Organization Pdf

WHO and partners have been working towards devising an agenda, an action plan, tools and guidelines to increase access to appropriate medical devices. This document is part of a series of reference documents being developed for use at the country level. The series will include the following subject areas: * policy framework for health technology * medical device regulations * health technology assessment * health technology management * needs assessment of medical devices * medical device procurement * medical equipment donations * medical equipment inventory management * medical equipment maintenance * computerized maintenance management systems * medical device data * medical device nomenclature * medical devices by health-care setting * medical devices by clinical procedures * medical device innovation, research and development. These documents are intended for use by biomedical engineers, health managers, donors, nongovernmental organizations and academic institutions involved in health technology at the district, national, regional or global levels. HTA is the systematic evaluation of properties, effects, and/or impacts of health technology. Its main purpose is to inform technology-related policy-making in health care, and thus improve the uptake of cost-effective new technologies and prevent the uptake of technologies that are of doubtful value for the health system. It is one of three complementary functions to ensure the appropriate introduction and use of health technology. The other two components are regulation, which is concerned with safety and efficacy, and assessment of all significant intended as well as unintended consequences of technology use; and management, which is concerned with the procurement and maintenance of the technology during its life-cycle. The performance of health systems is strengthened when the linkages and exchange among these elements are clearly differentiated but mutually supportive. This document integrates health technology assessment into the WHO framework for evidence-informed policy-making. Health systems are strengthened when HTA is integrated into the human and material resources, data, transparent decision- and policy-making, and linked to the overall vision of equity and accountability. Good governance can rely on health technology assessment to provide a policy approach that is accountable for its decisions to the population.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Europe
ISBN : UVA:X004383744

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'Best Practice' by Anonim Pdf

Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. Material and methods - 3. Definitions of best practice -4. Classification framework for defining best practice - 5. State of best practice in the EU member States - 6. Best practice model concept for carotid artery stenosis - 7. Recommendations for European co-ordination - 8. References.

Author : Monika Steffen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134219551

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Health Governance in Europe by Monika Steffen Pdf

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States. The authors explore the dynamic and multi-fold process of de-nationalizing health policies and illustrate how European policies develop in a sector that still appears to be under exclusively national competence. They describe the multiple forms and ways the Europeanization process takes, driven by market integration, public health crises and politics of consumer protection. The authors also provide a detailed analysis of key topics: the pharmaceutical sector, market regulation of medical goods and devices, food safety, the blood provision and plasma industry, European politics on bioethics, and risk reduction in the field of drug abuse. Providing a comprehensive and informed assessment of the Europeanization process in the field of health policies, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of health, European integration and policy-making.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264016224

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The OECD Health Project Health Technologies and Decision Making by OECD Pdf

This book analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of, evidence-based decision making in OECD health-care systems.

Author : Irene PAPANICOLAS,Dheepa RAJAN,Marina KARANIKOLOS,Agnès SOUCAT,Josep FIGUERAS MARIMONT
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789240042476

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Health system performance assessment by Irene PAPANICOLAS,Dheepa RAJAN,Marina KARANIKOLOS,Agnès SOUCAT,Josep FIGUERAS MARIMONT Pdf

Ensuring a robust and resilient health system involves policy actions which need to be implemented based on the best available evidence. This requires health systems to be monitored regularly to build on their strengths and to overcome any apparent shortcomings. In order to assist in that process, this volume, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, presents a new framework to support monitoring of health system performance, with a focus on detailed conceptual links between health system functions and overall system goals. This HSPA framework for Universal Health Coverage thus represents a comprehensive attempt to address fundamental questions regarding regular assessment of health systems, including health system boundaries, component elements and outcomes. In this book, each of the health system function chapters outlines the purpose of the function, the sub-functions that enable it to carry out the key activities necessary to fulfil its purpose, as well as the assessment areas and proposed indicative measures to evaluate how well a system performs. The framework will thus assist policy-makers in understanding possible origins or impact of poor performance on a particular health system outcome, triggering more in-depth analysis.