The first European Digital Health Technology Assessment framework co-created by all stakeholders in the European Health Ecosystem
Health systems worldwide are under constant pressure to provide high-quality services. Digital health technologies (DHTs) can be game-changers in improving the quality of healthcare services, but existing Health Technology Assessment (HTA) methodologies are unable to capture the real added value of DHTs.
EDiHTA will be the first flexible, inclusive, validated and ready-for-use European HTA framework allowing the assessment of different DHTs (e.g. telemedicine, mApps, AI) at different Technology Readiness Levels, territorial levels (national, regional and local) and perspectives (e.g. payer, society, hospital).
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.
Join our esteemed partners from the Clinic Barcelona University Hospital and Research Foundation Clínic Barcelona-August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute at the ISPOR Europe 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, on November 17-20, as they showcase the EDiHTA project and their research results.
We are excited to announce that our partners from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will be presenting at the ISPOR Europe 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, on November 17-20. We in the EDiHTA project are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase the project, particularly the research results from the NICE team on mapping existing methodology and practices of assessing DHT.
In a recent interview for the ICT&health magazine, Dr. Iga Lipska, Chairwoman of the Board at the Health Policy Institute, provides valuable insights into the progress and goals of our EDiHTA project and her views on the future of the standards and solutions employed for HTA in Europe.
Prof. Americo Cicchetti
EDiHTA project coordinator
Funded by the European Union (GA no. 101136424). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union the European Health or the Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
The UK participant is supported by UKRI grant No 10106869 (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).
The Swiss participant is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
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