Quality and Sustainability

Position the Health Technology Assessment as the discipline that allows to evaluate the return on investments in R & D & I with the aim of improving the quality of life of patients and ensuring the sustainability of the healthcare system.

WHAT IS HTA?

It is a multidisciplinary activity that systematically examines:

security,
clinical efficacy and effectiveness,
costs and cost-effectiveness;
the implications for the organisation,
the social consequences;
and takes into account the ethical and legal considerations of the application
new health technology, which usually includes medicines, medical devices, clinical or
surgical procedures, or even health organisational processes.

A technology assessment has three elements: technology, social aspects and social aspects.

“We shall use the term assessment of a medical technology to denote any process of examining and reporting properties of a medical technology used in health care, such as safety, efficacy, feasibility, and indications for use, cost, and cost-effectiveness, as well as social, economic, and ethical consequences, whether intended or unintended.”

Institute of Medicine 1985

“Health technology assessment ... is a structured analysis of a health technology, a set of related technologies, or a technologyrelated issue that is performed for the purpose of providing input to a policy decision.”

US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment 1994

“Health Technology Assessment asks important questions about these technologies [drugs, devices, procedures, settings of care, screening] such as: When is counselling better than drug treatment for depression? What is the best operation for aortic aneurysms? Should we screen for human papilloma virus when doing cervical smears? Should aspirin be used for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease? It answers these questions by investigating four main factors: whether the technology works, for whom, at what cost, how it compares with the alternatives.”

UK NHS National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment

“HTA is a field of scientific research to inform policy and clinical decision making around the introduction and diffusion of health technologies…. HTA is a multidisciplinary field that addresses the health impacts of technology, considering its specific healthcare context as well as available alternatives. Contextual factors addressed by HTA include economic, organizational, social, and ethical impacts. The scope and methods of HTA may be adapted to respond to the policy needs of a particular health system.”

Health Technology Assessment International 2013

“Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that summarises information about the medical, social, economic and ethical issues related to the use of a health technology in a systematic, transparent, unbiased, robust manner. Its aim is to inform the formulation of safe, effective, health policies that are patient focused and seek to achieve best value. Despite its policy goals, HTA must always be firmly rooted in research and the scientific method.”

European Network for Health Technology Assessment 2013

Technological consultancy in the health sector

We are experts in the preparation of Health Technology Assessment Positioning Reports (PR-HTA) that aims to achieve sustainable market access, ensuring efficiency based on the Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio (ICER).

In the light of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Health Technology Assessment and amending Directive 2011/24/EU, the need to move towards coordination at EU level is reinforced while emphasising the importance of vigorously pursuing the implementation of Health Technology Assessment Reports.

Training

We have a University Diploma in Health Technology Assessment, in collaboration with Pompeu Fabra University and the Gaspar Casal Foundation, which has been training the next generation of experts in HTA in more than 7 editions.

We are pioneers in training in digitalization and health intelligence skills at the national level. That is why, we offer a Diploma on the subject in collaboration with the Digital Health Association.

We offer individualized training tailored to the needs of companies in the sector in different formats: podcasts, workshops, courses, in company sessions, etc.

Request for Scientific Endorsement

The AEETS has developed a policy of endorsement with the aim of guaranteeing, facilitating and promoting initiatives of excellence aimed at formal evaluators and influencers of health technologies of the National Health System.

We support those activities of dissemination and dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge related to the development of the discipline of HTA in Spain.

Observatory of Trends in Health Technology

The Journal of Health Digitalization Trends (e-health trends) is part of an Observatory that analyses market trends, with a semi-annual advertising that allows the different actors of the system to be up to date with the latest developments in the sector.

Scientific meetings

We organize scientific-technical events around border issues related to discipline for the different actors of the health system.

Library

Our 28 years of experience in the sector have allowed us to combine the knowledge that exists around this discipline, we have:

Repository: Evaluation guides and reports from selected national and international
agencies.
Thessines.
Publications on the subject selected for their relevance.