HTA as a health policy tool in the Council’s conclusions on innovation for the benefit of the patient
Significance of HTA and the HTA Network Strategy are highlighted in the conclusions on innovation for the benefit of the patient adopted by the Council of the European Union on 1 December 2014. The conclusions offer a number of approaches and areas for strengthening of cooperation in HTA, eg, in the area of medicinal products, […]
All material and documents from the HTA 2.0 Europe conference is now available
The HTA 2.0 Europe – Teaming Up for Value conference took place in Rome, Italy on 30-31 October 2014. All important and relevant material from the conference is now available. Find out what was presented, discussed and decided during the conference by reading the slides or listening to the recordings of the sessions, see EUnetHTA Activity Station […]
[CLOSED] Public consultation of the draft methodological guideline “Methods for health economic evaluations”
We are pleased to announce that as of today, 18 November 2014, the draft methodological guideline “Methods for health economic evaluations”, produced within Subgroup 3 of WP7, has entered the public consultation phase. This consultation will take place between 18 November and 16 December 2014. Objective of the methodological guideline EUnetHTA´s methodological guidelines are targeted […]
[CLOSED] Public Consultation of the HTA Core Model version 2.1
The HTA Core Model has been updated in two phases by WP8 of EUnetHTA Joint Action 2. First, a major overhaul of the Model was made in 2013, resulting in version 2.0 in which most contents were updated. During 2014 the revision process continued through updating contents of the legal domain (the only domain not […]
HTA 2.0 Europe – Teaming Up for Value: Conference highlights and presentations available
The HTA 2.0 Europe – Teaming up for Value conference was organised within the framework of the EUnetHTA Joint Action 2 (2012-2015) by AGE.NA.S (the Italian national Agency for regional health services) and the EUnetHTA Secretariat (DHMA, Danish Health and Medicines Authority). The conference gathered more than 450 participants from all over Europe, representing all […]
The HTA Network Strategy and EUnetHTA JA2 Recommendations endorsed and go live at HTA 2.0 Europe in Rome
Today, on 30 October, the first day of HTA 2.0 Europe conference, the HTA Network Strategy and the EUnetHTA JA2 Recommendations went live. The Recommendations and the Strategy have been developed throughout 2014 in parallel processes, with both the strategic and scientific/technical levels of the European cooperation on HTA working in synergy to ensure consistency […]
Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis confirmed by European Parliament
Yesterday, on 22 October, the European Parliament confirmed the 28 commissioners put forward by the president-elect of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices policies will remain in the health portfolio under incoming Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. The new Commission will take office 1 November 2014.
Read more HTA 2.0 Europe conference – 5 days before the closing of online registration
How does EUnetHTA make a difference in national and regional HTA processes? Is industry seeing an evolution in interaction between HTAs and regulators? What are the EUnetHTA JA2 Recommendations (endorsed by the EUnetHTA Plenary Assembly) on sustainable European cooperation on HTA? Where are synergies between regulation, HTA, policy and reimbursement decision-making that will benefit European […]
Read more European Commission has “Health Technology Assessment” as a theme in latest Newsletter Issue
The European Commission has Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as a primary theme in the latest Directorate General for Health and Consumers’ (DG Sanco) Newsletter Issue no. 136 of 18 September 2014. The Commission’s continued focus on the development of HTA in Europe highlights EUnetHTA’s significant contribution in this field describing the activities and results of […]
European Commission’s President-elect, Jean-Claude Juncker, appoints Commissioners for Health and Food Safety and for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
The European Commission’s President-elect has appointed Mr. Vytenis P. Andriukaitis (Lithuanian) and Ms Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Poland) as the new Commissioners for ‘Health and Food Safety’ and ‘Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs’ respectively. In the mission letters, the President-elect suggests a new way of working for the European Commission with a clear and strong emphasis […]
