New EuroScan Methods Toolkit Released

EuroScan announces the recently published and updated EuroScan Methods Toolkit. –> Download Toolkit (redirects to the EuroScan website) The first toolkit for the identification and assessment of new and emerging health technologies was developed by members of the EuroScan International Network and published in 2009. Five years later this revised toolkit continues to focus on…

INAHTA welcomes new members

INAHTA is proud to welcome the following new member agencies: CONITEC – National Committee for Technology Incorporation MSP-Uruguay (once a Candidate Member, now a Full Member) HealthPACT – Health Policy Advisory Committee on Technology, Australia HCT-NHSRC – Division of Healthcare Technology, National Health Systems Resource Center (Candidate Member)  

3 New listserv reports available

Summary reports of three recent listserv questions are now available. Members can login to view these reports: – Does your agency disseminate the findings/conclusions of reports from other agencies? (SBU, Sweden) – Agencies processes & indicators for measuring the impact of HTA research? (NECA, South Korea) – Different conditions for antibiotic-loaded bone cement coverage? (HAS,…

New Listserv reports available

Summary reports of two recent listserv questions are now available. Members can login to view these reports: – Does your country use therapeutic groups to manage/promote the rational use of drugs? (IETS, Colombia) – Studies/terminology for “shaken baby syndrome” (abusive head trauma)? (SBU, Sweden)

New listserv reports available

Summary reports of two recent listserv questions are now available. Members can login to view these reports: – Cost-of-illness studies of arterial hypertension and its complications? (UCEETS) – Comparative effectiveness studies of drugs for renal osteodystrophy: evelamer, cinacalcet, paricalcitol & docexalciferol? (UCEETS)

CADTH 25th Anniversary Lecture Series

Free webinars announced: Citizen's Juries & Rational Pharmacare October 8, 2014 Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer, Head of the School of Population Health and Professor in Ethics in the Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide. Lecture: Using Citizens’ Juries in Health Policy Decision-Making: A Systematic Review and Personal Reflection. October 28, 2014 Dr. Marc-André Gagnon, Assistant…

INAHTA Checklist now available in Italian

INAHTA warmly thanks our colleagues at the GIMBE Foundation for their work in translating the INAHTA Checklist to Italian, and for promoting the Checklist to 100.000 Italian health professionals.  The INAHTA Checklist is an aid to furthering a consistent and transparent approach to HTA.  The Italian translation of the INAHTA checklist has been published in…

Request for Mentorship: Kazakh National Medical University

The INAHTA Mentorship Program has received a new Request for Mentorship. REQUEST from:  Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU) Date posted: August 30, 2014 Summary of request:     Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU), Kazakhstan, has created a new Committee on HTA to implement HTA in university hospitals.     Requests delivery of training course in core HTA…