Innovation Through HTA

HTAi invites you to join the leading minds in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from around the world to discuss and debate the role of HTA in leading health innovation. 

The 2021 Annual Meeting will focus on how adaptive approaches to HTA can continue to provide the cornerstone in leading health systems innovation particularly as technologies advance and novel interventions rapidly emerge. As our technological world evolves and new challenges emerge, we will need to adapt HTA to ensure it continues to be a conduit to support technology innovation. 

Innovation in the approach, pace, and scale of health technology development is rapid. As decision-makers respond to the pressures of not only meeting the essential needs of local health systems but also providing progressive and world-class care, traditional approaches to HTA are being challenged.  

Collaboration in developing HTA in emerging regions and developing novel approaches to HTA in systems with established HTA, is essential to our goal of supporting patient access to evidence-based healthcare, particularly as diagnostic and treatment pathways become ever more complex. Through three sub-themes of: HTA in a changing evidence eco-system, Patients being at the Heart of the Innovation pathway, and Innovating HTA to support new interventions, we will explore opportunities presented across global health systems for sustained use of HTA. 

The HTAi 2021 Annual Meeting will provide an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, health care practitioners, technology developers and patients to reflect on how they might innovate at regional and local level, across the core HTA elements of evidence, methods, and decision-making.   

We invite all stakeholders to participate in these discussions as we consider driving Innovation Through HTA.