What is Health Technology Assessment (HTA)?
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is the process of systematically reviewing existing evidence on medical technologies, and health interventions and providing an evaluation of their safety, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and impact on the health system. This independent evaluation informs health policy, and service delivery decisions and also impacts on clinical practice.
About Adelaide Health Technology Assessment (AHTA)
'Integrating evidence, priorities and values in health care'
Adelaide Health Technology Assessment (AHTA) is located within the Discipline of Public Health, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, The University of Adelaide.
AHTA is dedicated to:
- Providing excellence in evidence based assessment of health care technologies and interventions for the development of informed policy and clinical decision making;
- Improving equity of access to health technologies in Australia;
- Producing high quality research on approaches to assessment; and
- Training and education to produce Australian and international practitioners of HTA.
Staff within AHTA have extensive experience performing evidence-based assessments on a wide range of health care technologies, procedures and services. Specific processes have been developed to conduct systematic literature reviews, HTAs and clinical practice guideline development using "best practice" methodologies.
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