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 ...

Perrin Beatty, Canadian minister of health and welfare, 1989–1991, said that Canada needs “a more coordinated approach across the country to ensure that all Canadians are benefiting from the advances ...

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 ...

Many researchers working on health technology assessments (HTAs) are keen to address disparities in health care. But the COVID-19 pandemic and recent prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement have ...

Encryption, drones, driverless cars, genetic engineering, and the whole “Internet of Things”: legislators have already had to contend with competing bills and proposals regarding some of those issues, ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. It's hard to imagine that the federal government has been operating without a technology assessment agency ...

The University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy in the College of Health Sciences has launched a new certificate program aimed at providing practicing pharmacists, other health professionals and health ...

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 ...

Congress is in dire need of improving science and technical expertise as a legislative resource. Thankfully, there is a straightforward solution: reinstating the Office of Technology Assessment. The ...

At Bentley College (MA), the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program has undergone quite a makeover: Educators there have completely revamped the way in which they assess student performance in ...