At what point in the life cycle of technologies are HTA reports requested? An analysis of 130 HTA reports in Argentina

CIAPPONI A; ARIEL BARDACH; ALCARAZ A; CALDERÓN M; HERNÁNDEZ-VÁSQUEZ A; AUGUSTOVSKI F; PICHÓN-RIVIERE

Congreso; 24th Cochrane Colloquium Seul 2016; 2016

Introduction: Health technologies (HT) have a natural life-cycle with five stages: research/development, experimental, innovative, general use, and obsolescence/replacement. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) can be useful in all these stages.Objective: To describe when in the life-cycle of a technology the HTA is requested, based on the experience from an independent Argentinian HTA agency, the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), a member of INAHTA (The International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment).Methods: We analyzed all the reports performed by IECS for a consortium of public, social security and private health care institutions in Argentina and Uruguay during 2014 and 2015.