HTA
Qu’est-ce que l’évaluation des technologies de la santé?
Depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, les technologies médicales se sont développées rapidement. En raison de cette multiplication des technologies, depuis une vingtaine d’années, des voix se sont élevées pour exiger une évaluation systématique des innovations médicales et ce dans le but de prendre des décisions rationnelles relatives à leur adoption et utilisation.
Health technology assessment across the world
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a policy-oriented research activity that is aiming to influence the decisions made about the coverage, use and diffusion of health technology by policymakers, health care providers, managers and patients.
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Why is critical research on health innovation useful?
What health innovations are we talking about?
Although innovation in health care is often equated with technology, it is in fact a change that may refer to products and/or processes (OECD, 2005). An innovation may be radical (e.g., the discovery of x-rays) or incremental (e.g., the refinement of computed tomography scanners). It may emerge from the private or the public sector, or from an alliance between the two. It may have been designed by experts such as engineers and scientists, or by non-technical end-users (e.g., physicians, patients, disabled persons).



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