Emerging health technologies: Informing and supporting health policy early

Prioritisation criteria for the selection of new diagnostic technologies for evaluation

“…Selection criteria also differ significantly depending on the early awareness programme, and prioritisation is frequently implicit and undocumented [13,14]. The requirements for diagnostic technologies are somewhat different.…”

A Rasch model analysis of technology usage in Minnesota hospitals

“…It should be noted that one additional variable was added to the list of healthcare technologies, benchmarking. The benchmarking variable was included because it is a process that is often included as part of the selection and implementation of technologies [64][65][66]. The specific healthcare technologies included in this study were not intended to be a complete list of healthcare technologies, but rather a representative listing.…”

Utilization of health technologies—Do not look where there is a light; shine your light where there is a need to look!

“…An example of a constructive dialogue between a manufacturer and decision makers can be found in the reported meeting of GlaksoSmithKline's chief of Research and Development with healthcare officials from the UK, France, Italy and Spain, in which they examined and commented on drugs the company was developing [28]. Horizon scanning is an approach based on monitoring emerging technologies by early identification of new developments that might have significant impact on the healthcare system [27,29]. This approach was endorsed by several countries as well as on an international level (EUROSCAN) as a means of providing policy makers with early notification of potential consequences of upcoming innovations and of new applications of existing interventions [29].…”

“…Horizon scanning is an approach based on monitoring emerging technologies by early identification of new developments that might have significant impact on the healthcare system [27,29]. This approach was endorsed by several countries as well as on an international level (EUROSCAN) as a means of providing policy makers with early notification of potential consequences of upcoming innovations and of new applications of existing interventions [29]. Although horizon scanning might be "reactive", responding to advancing technologies either by slowing them down or pushing them forward [30], it could also be "proactive" and be used to seek interventions that provide solutions for defined unmet health needs.…”

“…Although horizon scanning might be "reactive", responding to advancing technologies either by slowing them down or pushing them forward [30], it could also be "proactive" and be used to seek interventions that provide solutions for defined unmet health needs. Instead of serving as a means by which decision makers buy time to plan and prepare for the accumulating pressure produced by the expectations of innovative health technologies [29], horizon scanning could serve decision makers as an execution tool for decisions that already have been made. For Israel, instead of scanning information regarding the approximately 400 new technologies submitted annually, the yet-to-come National Research Institute would scan information pertaining to the defined national health goals.…”