On October 13, 1972, in an act of bipartisanship and scientific literacy that we would be shocked to see come out of Congress today, the Technology Assessment Act was put into law. This act created ...

The EU wants to strengthen EU cooperation on health technology assessment (HTA). The main purpose of HTA is to provide policy-makers with evidence-based information, so they can formulate health ...

Cancer care is currently experiencing rapid development in novel therapeutics, with an associated rise in treatment costs. These changes not only create a critical challenge for therapeutic ...

A white paper published by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) established a series of recommendations and guidelines for health technology assessment that aim to address health care ...

Changes to Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Europe offer new opportunities to streamline processes and get innovative treatments to market more quickly. However, they also require developers to ...

To establish an Office of Technology Assessment for the Congress as an aid in the identification and consideration of existing and probable impacts of technological application; to amend the National ...

History is replete with stories of poor decisions—catastrophes that leaders might have averted, and great opportunities that people somehow missed. In 1876, William Orton, president of Western Union, ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Jan. 10, 2025 that it is prepared for the implementation of the health technology assessment regulation (HTAR) that comes into effect on Jan. 12, 2025 ...

This course is compulsory on the Executive MSc in Healthcare Decision-Making, in collaboration with NICE. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. Health ...