HTAi Panel & Workshop deadline extended
HTAi has extended the deadline for panel & workshop abstract submissions for the next Annual Meeting in Oslo, 15-17 June 2015. Visit conference website for more information.
New Listserv reports available
Summary reports of two recent listserv questions are now available. Members can login to view these reports: – Does your country use therapeutic groups to manage/promote the rational use of drugs? (IETS, Colombia) – Studies/terminology for “shaken baby syndrome” (abusive head trauma)? (SBU, Sweden)
HTAi 2015 Call for Abstracts
HTAi now accepting abstract submissions for panels or workshops at the HTAi Annual Meeting Oslo 2015. Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2014. Visit conference website
New listserv reports available
Summary reports of two recent listserv questions are now available. Members can login to view these reports: – Cost-of-illness studies of arterial hypertension and its complications? (UCEETS) – Comparative effectiveness studies of drugs for renal osteodystrophy: evelamer, cinacalcet, paricalcitol & docexalciferol? (UCEETS)
CADTH 25th Anniversary Lecture Series
Free webinars announced: Citizen's Juries & Rational Pharmacare October 8, 2014 Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer, Head of the School of Population Health and Professor in Ethics in the Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide. Lecture: Using Citizens’ Juries in Health Policy Decision-Making: A Systematic Review and Personal Reflection. October 28, 2014 Dr. Marc-André Gagnon, Assistant…
INAHTA Checklist now available in Italian
INAHTA warmly thanks our colleagues at the GIMBE Foundation for their work in translating the INAHTA Checklist to Italian, and for promoting the Checklist to 100.000 Italian health professionals. The INAHTA Checklist is an aid to furthering a consistent and transparent approach to HTA. The Italian translation of the INAHTA checklist has been published in…
Request for Mentorship: Kazakh National Medical University
The INAHTA Mentorship Program has received a new Request for Mentorship. REQUEST from: Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU) Date posted: August 30, 2014 Summary of request: Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU), Kazakhstan, has created a new Committee on HTA to implement HTA in university hospitals. Requests delivery of training course in core HTA…
Patient Submission Templates for HTA – Deadline extended to Sept 12
Patient Submission Templates for HTA – Call for Piloting/Consultation The HTAi Patient & Citizen Involvement interest sub-group has prepared templates for Patient Group Submissions for non-Medicine's HTA and Medicine's HTA. They are asking INAHTA members to pilot / consult on these templates. Thank you to those who have already provided comments on the HTAi patient…
Join Committees & Task Groups
INAHTA members invited to join the following groups to advise and help execute the activities of the Network: Board Standing Committees: Internal Communications: optimizing how we communicate amongst members of the Network External Partnerships: managing our relationships with partner organizations in the HTA community Board Task Groups: Membership Criteria: to review components of the criteria…
New Listserv reports available
Summary reports of three recent listserv questions are now available. Members can view these reports (login required): Cardiovascular disease risk markers compared with prediction models – other agencies working in this area? (KCE, Belgium) Approaches to facilitate adoption of non-medicines technologies where little/no supporting evidence is available? (HIS, Scotland) HTA reports and/or recommendations for sildenafil?…