Policy Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe

Author : Lars Klüver,Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen,Marie Louise Jørgensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781137561725

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This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to interactive governance is therefore underway with policy-makers and citizens becoming increasingly involved in processes of deliberating futures. Technology Assessment (TA) is the art of structuring such processes. TA goes beyond traditional expert policy analysis by systematically combining a multi-disciplinary evidence base with participatory approaches to policy deliberation. TA thus seeks to act as a hub for serious and transparent dialogue between policy, industry, science, and society about the challenges ahead and the available options for overcoming them responsibly. This volume offers an up-to-date account of the expansion of technology assessment capacities across new European member states. The contributions of this volume are written by leading European researchers and practitioners in technology assessment (TA) and are based on the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project.

Author : Marcial Velasco Garrido
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Lars Kluver,Rasmus Ojvind Nielsen,Marie Louise Jorgensen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349850942

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Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe by Lars Kluver,Rasmus Ojvind Nielsen,Marie Louise Jorgensen Pdf

"Contributions from participants in the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project, which ran from 2011-15."

Author : Lars Klüver,Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen,Marie Louise Jørgensen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1137561734

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Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe by Lars Klüver,Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen,Marie Louise Jørgensen Pdf

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to interactive governance is therefore underway with policy-makers and citizens becoming increasingly involved in processes of deliberating futures. Technology Assessment (TA) is the art of structuring such processes. TA goes beyond traditional expert policy analysis by systematically combining a multi-disciplinary evidence base with participatory approaches to policy deliberation. TA thus seeks to act as a hub for serious and transparent dialogue between policy, industry, science, and society about the challenges ahead and the available options for overcoming them responsibly. This volume offers an up-to-date account of the expansion of technology assessment capacities across new European member states. The contributions of this volume are written by leading European researchers and practitioners in technology assessment (TA) and are based on the PACITA (Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment) project.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Office for Official Publications of European Communities
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : OECD,World Health Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Michael Decker,Miltos Ladikas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662061718

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Bridges between Science, Society and Policy by Michael Decker,Miltos Ladikas Pdf

The Europaische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-techni scher Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH (european academy) is con cerned with the scientific study of the consequences of scientific and technological advance for the individual and social life and for the natural environment. The main focus is to examine foreseeable mid-and long-term processes that are especially influenced by natural-and engineering sciences and the medical disciplines. The academy fulfills this task by organizing interdisciplinary expert discussions. Another important issue of the work of the Europaische Akademie concerns the methodology of Technology Assessment as a general issue. This is the main reason that the european academy organized during the past two years a project funded by the European Commission on Technology Assessment. Methods and Impact (TAMI). Together with partners from all over Europe a common understanding of what Tech nology Assessment (TA) is supposed to do was developed. Most importantly it was acknowledged that the core of any TA activity has to be a sound scientific under standing of the relevant phenomena. Communication then is of cordial importance to reach the relevant decision makers as well as the general public. It is true that this phase of the TA process has been treated with too little attention for many years. The communication processes between scientific advisers and policy makers have hence to be further scrutinized.

Author : Philip Shapira,Stefan Kuhlmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957053

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Learning from Science and Technology Policy Evaluation by Philip Shapira,Stefan Kuhlmann Pdf

The contributors analyse and contrast the need and demand for RIT performance measurement and evaluation within the US and European innovation and policy making systems. They assess current US and European RIT evaluation practices and methods in key areas, discuss applications of new evaluative approaches and consider strategies that could lead to improvements in RIT evaluation design and policies.

Author : Norman J. Vig,Herbert Paschen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791443043

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Parliaments and Technology by Norman J. Vig,Herbert Paschen Pdf

The first comparative analysis of the development and practice of technology assessment in different national settings.

Author : Juan E. del Llano-Señarís,Carlos Campillo-Artero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Corinna Sorenson,Michael Drummond,Panos Kanavos
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Hahn, Julia,Ladikas, Miltos
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783731508311

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Constructing a Global Technology Assessment : Insights from Australia, China, Europe, Germany, India and Russia by Hahn, Julia,Ladikas, Miltos Pdf

Author : Laura Sampietro-Colom,Janet Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : M. Decker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3540427929

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Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment by M. Decker Pdf

Technology Assessment processes can be taken as a paradigm for interdisciplinary research. It is expected that interdisciplinary Technology Assessment is able to find solutions for actual sociopolitical problems that go beyond those expectable from one individual scientific discipline alone. The common notion that for tasks like this different disciplinary perspectives should be brought together confronts the fact that there is no common notion on how interdisciplinary research should be done. In the present volume of the series "Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung" European experts of Technology Assessment present their perspectives on interdisciplinary research. They focus on methodology, policy consulting, and participation of stakeholders, laypersons and citizens or present concrete case studies concerning climate change and health care. Each contribution is commented by an other scientist. The result is a discussion-like examination of the connection between interdisciplinarity and the main subjects of Technology Assessment. This makes the book worth reading not only for experts in interdisciplinary research and policy consulting, but also for those who are interested in the ongoing discussion about methodology in European Technology Assessment.

Author : Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289071932

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Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union by Helena Legido-Quigley Pdf

People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.