The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and the HTA Network of the Americas (RedETSA, Red de Evaluación de Tecnologias en Salud de las Americas), jointly with the Spanish Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies (Red Española de Agencias de Evaluación de Tecnologías y Prestaciones del Sistema Nacional de Salud) are pleased to invite you to a new edition of the RedETSA Webinar Program: HTA applied to Digital Health Technologies: experiences from Spain and Canada
The Webinar on “HTA applied to Digital Health Technologies” aims to update its participants about some of the available methodological frameworks and other possible dimensions for the Evaluation of digital health technologies from the experiences of Spain and Canada.
Digital health is defined by the WHO as “the field of knowledge and practice associated with the development and use of digital technologies for health improvement.” On the other hand, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is defined as the “multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its life cycle.” In general, the HTA is developed according to specific methodological frameworks in which certain domains or dimensions of health technologies are evaluated, such as safety, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, legal aspects, social aspects, ethical aspects, and organizational aspects, among others.
Although standard methodological frameworks are usually useful for evaluating many types of health technologies, it is increasingly necessary to develop methodological frameworks or new domains that consider the particularities of digital health technologies.
