Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience

Pecchia, Leandro; Craven, Michael P.

Abstract

Early stage Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices requires different methods than those usually employed for pharmaceuticals. This paper reviews widely used methods for HTA, discusses their limits for early stage evaluation of biomedical devices and presents two methods for early stage HTA being developed in the Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH) project: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to elicit user needs; and early stage economic evaluations using Markov Models.

Citation

Pecchia, L., & Craven, M. P. (2013). Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience. In M. Long (Ed.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China. Springer

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Feb 27, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 27, 2013
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Issue: 39
• Series Title: IFMBE proceedings
• Book Title: World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China
• ISBN: 978-3-642-29304-7
• Keywords: Health Technology Assessment, Early stage HTA, evaluation methods, biomedical devices.
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005368
• Publisher URL: http://www.springer.com/engineering/biomedical+engineering/book/978-3-642-29304-7
• Additional Information: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com