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The International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care is a bimonthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health technology assessment.Established in 1985, it is published by Cambridge University Press, and is the official journal of Health Technology Assessment International.
The discipline of HTA was first developed in the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, which published its first report in 1976. [9] The growth of HTA internationally can be seen in the expanding membership of the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA), a non-profit umbrella organization established in 1993. [10]
Medical technology assessment (MTA) is the objective evaluation of a medical technology regarding its safety and performance, its (future) impact on clinical and non-clinical patient outcomes as well as its interactive effects on economical, organizational, social, juridical and ethical aspects of healthcare. Medical technologies are assessed ...
Inquiry (health journal) International Health (journal) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; International Journal of Public Health; International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being; International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care; Iranian Journal of Public Health
Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives". [1]
Health Technology Assessment is a weekly peer-reviewed open access medical journal published by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), [1] [2] a research partner of the United Kingdom National Health Service. It publishes research on the evaluations of health technologies, their effectiveness, cost and broader impact. [3]
Multidisciplinary assessment; Transferability assessment; Firstly, the assessment must start with preceding considerations in order to determine whether it is relevant for an institution at a given point in time to carry out the assessment. This step involves mainly assessment of the maturity of the technology and the organization planning to ...
An important problem concerning technology assessment is the so-called Collingridge dilemma: on the one hand, impacts of new technologies cannot be easily predicted until the technology is extensively developed and widely used; on the other hand, control or change of a technology is difficult as soon as it is widely used. It emphasizes on the ...