The aim of this study was to describe the history and present situation with health technology assessment (HTA) in Israel. The method used in this study was a historical analysis based mainly on the knowledge of the authors, but supplemented by the published...

Objectives: To describe and explore the reasons for the current health technology assessment (HTA) landscape in the United States.Methods: Relying on multiple historical literature and other documents as well as drawing on personal experiences and observations, we...

Introduction For over 40 years, Canada has had a publicly funded, national health-care system designed to ensure residents receive “reasonable access” to “medically necessary” health-care services, regardless of their ability to pay [1]. However, unlike...

Introduction Health technology assessment (HTA) has been discussed in Germany since the late 1990s, closely related to the advent of evidence‐based medicine. The idea of technology assessment was initially discussed in Germany by the “technology assessment office of...

Abstract This study summarizes the experience with health technology assessment (HTA) at the European level. Geographically, Europe includes approximately fifty countries with a total of approximately 730 million people. Politically, twenty-seven of these countries...

Sweden has a long history of using data as a basis to form policies in many sectors of society. The very first documented efforts to collect data and use some kind of evidence to judge health care began 350 years ago in Sweden. In 1663, the Swedish Collegium Medicorum...

This study aims to review the development of health technology assessment (HTA), including the socioeconomic context, outputs, and policy utilization in the Thai setting. This study was conducted through extensive document reviews including these published in both...

The European network on Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) aimed to produce tangible and practical results to be used in the various phases of health technology assessment and to establish a framework and processes to support this. This article presents the...

Introduction Although the general methods of economic evaluation are well established [1,2], it is often their detailed application that raises methodological challenges. Most international guidelines for economic evaluation, although appearing to be...

Introduction The global medical technology industry brings thousands of devices to market every year. However, significant gaps persist in the scientific literature, in the medical device approval process, and in the realm of postmarketing surveillance. Although...