Biomedical Engineering (BSc)
Biomedical Engineering (BSc)
Master of Science in Engineering – Profile Medical Engineering
MSc in Engineering – Profile Medical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering (BSc)
Biomedical Engineering (MSc)
Biomedical Engineering (MSc)
Master of Science in Engineering – Medical Engineering
Master in Biomedical Engineering
Colombian Health System on its Way to Improve Allocation Efficiency—Transition from a Health Sector Reform to the Settlement of an HTA Agency
Over the past 20 years, Colombia has invested major efforts in ensuring universal health care access to its citizens while facing epidemiological transition and demographic changes. The country, as any other region in the world, is challenged by financial constraints...
Health Technology Assessment of Medical Devices. (WHO Medical Device Technical Series)
Health technology assessment (HTA) has emerged as an important tool for supporting the core functions of an effective global health system. Actions by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other global health organizations are necessary to support regional and...
Transferability of health technology assessments and economic evaluations: a systematic review of approaches for assessment and application
Background: Health technology assessments (HTA) generally, and economic evaluations (EE) more specifically, have become an integral part of health care decision making around the world. However, these assessments are time consuming and expensive to conduct. Evaluation...
Specificities of Medical Devices Affecting Health Technology Assessment Methodology
Abstract Health Technology Assessment developed out of pharmacoeconomy; although it is routinely used for all health technologies incl. therapeutic interventions, preventive measures etc., its methodology fits best for drugs. Medical devices have their specificities...
Opportunities to Promote Efficiency in Hospital Decision-Making through the Use of Health Technology Assessment
KEY MESSAGES Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary area of applied research that produces high quality information about health technologies—drugs, medical technologies and health interventions. The HTA produces recommendations on whether a health...
Methods of synthesizing qualitative research studies for health technology assessment
Abstract OBJECTIVES: Synthesizing qualitative research is an important means of ensuring the needs, preferences, and experiences of patients are taken into account by service providers and policy makers, but the range of methods available can appear confusing. This...
Interactions between health technology assessment, coverage, and regulatory processes: Emerging issues, goals, and opportunities
Background: The relationship between regulatory approval on the one hand and health technology assessment (HTA) and coverage on the other is receiving growing attention. Those responsible for regulatory approval, HTA, and coverage have different missions and their...
Integrating patients’ views into health technology assessment: Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a method to elicit patient preferences
Abstract BACKGROUND: Patient involvement is widely acknowledged to be a valuable component in health technology assessment (HTA) and healthcare decision making. However, quantitative approaches to ascertain patients' preferences for treatment endpoints are not yet...
Different methods for ethical analysis in health technology assessment: an empirical study
Abstract OBJECTIVES: Ethical analysis can highlight important ethical issues related to implementing a technology, values inherent in the technology itself, and value-decisions underlying the health technology assessment (HTA) process. Ethical analysis is a...
Bridging health technology assessment (HTA) with multicriteria decision analyses (MCDA): Field testing of the EVIDEM framework for coverage decisions by a public payer in Canada
Consistent healthcare decision making requires systematic consideration of decision criteria and evidence available to inform them. This can be tackled by combining multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA). The objective of this...
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