Health technology assessment (HTA) has been discussed in Germany since the late 1990s, closely related to the advent of evidence\u2010based medicine. The idea of technology assessment was initially discussed in Germany by the \u201ctechnology assessment office of the parliament.\u201d This was further supported by a scientific project to evaluate the use and benefit of HTA in the German health\u2010care setting at the Hanover Medical School 1<\/a>. The German Scientific Working Group Technology Assessment for Health Care was then founded in 1997 with the objectives to develop a database comprised of HTAs already available and improve the methodology for HTA. The project group consisted of university\u2010based scientists and representatives of the various institutions within the statutory health insurance (SHI). The project was sponsored by the federal government and supervised by the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Medizinische Dokumentation und Information [DIMDI]). The project was finished in 2001. HTA was formally established with the German Health Care Reform 2000. The reform included the assignment of the implementation of a database and a scientific working program on HTA within the remit of DIMDI. In the same year, the German Agency for HTA was established within DIMDI (Deutsche Agentur f\u00fcr Health Technology Assessment [DAHTA@DIMDI]). Based on the work done by the German Working Group Technology Assessment for Health Care, the principles and methods of HTA were continuously adopted by various decision\u2010making bodies in Germany, such as the predecessors of the Federal Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss, G\u2010BA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225151","hta_library","type-hta_library","status-publish","hentry","category-review-papers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hta_library\/225151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hta_library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hta_library"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}