In a move highlighting the critical importance of Health Technology Assessment, the European Commission has officially launched its first request submission period for joint scientific consultations under the Health Technology Assessment Regulation (EU) 2021/2282.

The EU Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Regulation, which was applied as of 12 January 2025, is set to transform the European health policy landscape. At the intersection of the HTA Regulation and the European Health Data Space is the EU-funded European Digital Health Technology Assessment (EDiHTA) project, which aims to to develop a specific framework for the assessment of digital health technologies.

On November 4, 2024, EDiHTA was invited to join a Sustainability Roundtable hosted by the ASSESS DHT project. The event successfully convened over 30 experts from HTA bodies in 13 countries, along with representatives from 3 supra-national organisations.

Last week, the EDiHTA consortium came together online for the second General Assembly meeting. The two-day meeting, held on December 3rd and 5th, 2024, provided an excellent opportunity for the consortium to review the significant progress made in the first year of the EDiHTA project and prepare for the upcoming steps towards the design and development of the EDiHTA framework in 2025.

On 26-27 November, 2024, our partner from UCSC, Alessandra Pernice, attended the 5-year Anniversary Event for Data Saves Lives (DSL) in Brussels, Belgium. This event celebrated DSL’s mission to empower and inspire the patient community and foster discussions on key health data literacy topics such as the European Health Data Space, AI, and HTA.

The partners from HCB/FCRB-IDIPABS and RUMC collaboratively conducted a study to identify available scales for measuring the life cycle development of innovative health technologies and analyze their appropriateness in capturing the unique characteristics of DHTs’ life cycle development.