Workshop Registration Rates
| Annual Meeting Attendees (with completed registration) | Complimentary |
| Half Day | $40 |
| Full Day | $75 |
All prices are in US$
A summary of each workshop can be viewed below or click here to read the full workshop abstracts
Day 1: Saturday, June 19, 2021 - Full Day Sessions from 08:00 to 15:00 (UTC)
The HTAi Information Retrieval Group workshop will focus on how the NICE information services team works; their collaboration in the UK and internationally. We will also explore automation technologies and tools to improve searching and study identification. This workshop allows participants the opportunity to learn new advances in information retrieval and share innovative experiences and practices with other expert searchers.
Day 1: Saturday, June 19, 2021 - Half Day Session from 08:00 - 11:00 (UTC)
HTA is widely seen as a specific type of policy-research. However, in its course of development it has failed to take account of crucially important insights from policy sciences. The VALIDATE (VALues In Doing Assessments of healthcare TEchnologies) project aims to redress this and offers an e-learning course, an accompanying handbook, and appropriate opportunities for internships at European HTA Agencies.
Day 1: Saturday, June 19, 2021 - Half Day Session from 12:00 to 15:00 (UTC)
In this workshop, horizon scanning experts from the UK NIHR Innovation Observatory will share their experience and insights gained from the set up and delivery of the national horizon scanning service for medicines in England. The team will reflect on the intrinsic challenges and opportunities faced whilst designing a national horizon scanning system for devices, diagnostics and digital technologies.
Day 1: Saturday, June 19, 2021 - Half Day Sessions from 17:00 to 20:00 (UTC)
Many HTA agencies evaluate the impact (or influence) of their HTA reports. Participants in this educational workshop will learn about current approaches to conceptualizing and measuring HTA impact. Facilitated by staff at HTA agencies that are members of INAHTA, this session will engage participants in a hands-on activity to apply the INAHTA Impact Framework to case studies.
This will explore methods to incorporate environmental sustainability into HTA. It will use different approaches to capture the evolving global importance of sustainability for medical devices. Methods used will include weight of evidence, MCDA and CUA and will produce a proposed framework of environmental data sources, evidence requirements, environmental HTA outputs and gap analysis of use to payers and users
The relevance of incorporating ethical analysis into HTA is increasingly acknowledged not only because many health technologies raise ethical, legal and social issues but also because HTA is an ‘evaluative process’ aimed at informing decision-making. This workshop offers a lively introduction to the role of ethics in HTA for people familiar with HTA, but not familiar with ethics in HTA.
Day 1: Saturday, June 19, 2021 - Half Day Session from 21:00 to 00:00 (+1 day) (UTC)
This popular workshop is updated and offered at all HTAi annual meetings. It provides an understanding of important HTA concepts, methods, current issues, and trends to help attendees to engage fully in the annual meeting. Good for those who are new to HTA and those who want a “refresher” course. Course leader: Clifford Goodman, PhD, a past president of HTAi.
Day 2: Sunday, June 20, 2021 - Full Day Sessions from 08:00 to 15:00 (UTC)
High-tech medical equipment is widely used for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disease or injury but receives less attention in the HTAi community. HTA’s new definition promotes an equitable, efficient, and high-quality health system and raises challenges to the assessment and management of medical equipment. This workshop will present corresponding framework and methodologies and their implementation in the real world.
Day 2: Sunday, June 20, 2021 - Half Day Sessions from 08:00 to 11:00 (UTC)
Health systems around the globe face challenges to provide equal access to innovative technologies, while managing budgets. Early HTA addresses this challenge by informing and steering the development, research and implementation of non-drug technologies from multiple perspectives. In this workshop we provide a practical and interactive introduction to state-of-the-art methods that can be used before clinical evidence is available.
The National Institute for Health Research Innovation Observatory (NIHRIO) has been working on identifying and implementing effective and efficient ways of conducting the horizon scanning searches with the use of digital technologies. The workshop is a practical demonstration of the methods used to develop one of our digital solutions and an interactive guide for users.
Day 2: Sunday, June 20, 2021 - Half Day Sessions from 12:00 to 15:00 (UTC)
In this workshop we aim to conceptualize patient and public involvement (PPI) and to outline approaches on how to drive PPI in Low- and Middle-Income countries (LMIC) and to put patients at the heart of healthcare. After exploring examples of emerging Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), the participants will interactively elaborate the determinants for PPI and specific requirements in LMICs.
There is a rapidly growing body of scientific literature regarding both HTA and Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC) as applied to MedTech. Through a series of case-studies, this workshop will investigate how these advances can be realized in practice. The session will cover surgical robotics, diabetes technology and cardiac implants to explore how HTA and VBHC can aid implementation of innovative technology.
WS15: The Use Of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes For Health Technology Assessment In Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC)
On their path towards universal health coverage, governments need to make choices in the design of HTA processes which may be challenging in countries that have limited experience with HTA. This workshop provides guidance on how to make these choices, informed by the theory of evidence-informed deliberative processes, international best practices and practical examples from several middle-income countries.
Day 2: Sunday, June 20, 2021 - Half Day Sessions from 17:00 to 20:00 (UTC)
This half-day workshop will describe: (1)The challenges in assessing the value of innovative genomic technologies such as CGP/NGS; (2)A collaborative approach used to develop a value framework in Latin America, and how it is being adapted to co-create a framework in Europe;(3)Practical steps of how to implement the framework in other regions to broaden access to these innovative technologies.
Following the success of our previous workshop, the Real-World Evidence and Artificial Intelligence (RWE-AI) interest group proposes this updated workshop. It's aim is to present the activities of the interest group, and provide an understanding of how real-world evidence and artificial intelligence are generated, as well as how they are used in health technology assessment. The workshop is interactive.
Following the global coronavirus pandemic, the RAPID-C19 (Research to Access Pathway for Investigational Drugs for COVID-19) group was set up in the UK, to address the urgent need for safe and effective treatments. This workshop will outline an iterative process undertaken by the NIHR Innovation Observatory (NIHRIO) to support this group in identifying, tracking and prioritising relevant innovative health technologies.
This workshop will share how resources for patient involvement developed by the HTAi Patient and Citizen Involvement Interest Group are adapted and used around the world. It includes presentations by HTA bodies, patients and patient groups, researchers and medicine developers; discussions about the strengths and limitations of current resources; and small-group work to identify approaches to meet ongoing needs.