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EUnetHTA Joint action 2010-2012
Sharing expertise and efforts
Iris Pasternack, research officer, FINOHTA
European Patients’ Forum Spring Seminar on HTA
18 May 2010 Brussels
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What is EUnetHTA?
• European network for HTA• 2006-2008 EUnetHTA project• 2009 EUnetHTA Collaboration • 2010-2012 Joint Action between European
Commission and EU Member States– A total of 33 government appointed organisations
from 23 EU Member States and Norway and a large number of relevant regional agencies and non-for-profit organisations that produce or contribute to HTA
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A Venn Diagram to illustrate the transition from EUnetHTA Project Associate Partnership to EUnetHTA Collaboration Founding Partnership to Joint Action Associate Partnership
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Why EUnetHTA?
• Double work could be avoided– Example: cancer drugs
• Relevance of HTA can be improved– Example: patient perspective in surgery for
severe obesity
• Quality of HTA can be improved– Example: pool of experts
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Stakeholder Forum
Plenary Assembly(policy setting)
Secretariat
reporting control
reporting control
reporting support/control
coordination /exchange of info
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info
Executive Committee (strategic planning of activities)
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What is HTA Core Model?
• An online-tool for HTA-developers
• Contains – structure for HTA generation and reporting
– advice on methodologies
• What is new? Information is split into elements
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1. Health problem and current use of technology
2. Description and technical characteristics
3. Safety
4. Clinical effectiveness
5. Costs and economic evaluation
6. Ethical analysis
7. Organisational aspects
8. Social aspects
9. Legal aspects
Domains of the HTA Core Model
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Social aspects
Topic 1: Major life areas
Topic 2: Individual
Topic 3: Communication
Which social areas does the use of the technology influence?
Who are the important others that the use of the technology may affect in addition to the patient?
What kind of support and resources are needed or might be released as the technology is put to use?
What kinds of changes does the use of the technology generate in the patient's role in the major life areas?
What kind of changes does the implementation and use of the technology mean for the patients physical and psychological functioning in his or her major life areas?
How do patients and important others react and act upon the technology?
What is patients' and important others’ knowledge and understanding of the technology?
How is the information regarding the use of the technology processed and exchanged?
What are the consequences in decision making?
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Social aspectsTopic 1: Major life areas
Issue 1: Which social areas does the use of the technology influence?
Issue 2: Who are the important others that the use of the technology may affect in addition to the patient?
Issue 3: What kind of support and resources are needed or might be released as the technology is put to use?
Issue 4: What kinds of changes does the use of the technology generate in the patient's role in the major life areas?
Issue 5: What kind of changes does the implementation and use of the technology mean for the patients physical and psychological functioning in his or her major life areas?
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Social aspectsTopic 2: Individual
Issue 6: How do patients and important others react and act upon the technology?
Topic 3: Communication
Issue 7: What is patients' and important others’ knowledge and understanding of the technology?
Issue 8: How is the information regarding the use of the technology processed and exchanged?
Issue 9: What are the consequences in decision making?
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How to get involved with EUnetHTA?
• EUnetHTA Stakeholder Forum• Public consultations on deliverables
and certain documents• Targeted inquiries on specific subjects
emerging from the work performed in the EUnetHTA JA Work Packages
• Stakeholder Involvement online area within the EUnetHTA website will be developed during 2010
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EUnetHTA Collaboration: how to ensure continuity?
• Focus on methodology but ALSO on a working process (i.e. developing practical tools)
• Strong emphasis on the management and organisational support structures for co-operation
• Stakeholder involvement, openness to dialogue and inclusiveness
• Attention to the policy processes in European healthcare• Continuous attention to delivering a unique and added
value to partners and users
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