Health innovations advanced with ‘Early Health Technology Assessment’

Early Health Technology Assessment, or early HTA, is a tool that can help health innovations to meet the needs of the global health system. The approach was utilized by World Health Organization (WHO) in early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, but is not yet widely known.

“Early HTA” was explained by experts at a workshop organised as a collaboration between the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program Foundation (HITAP Foundation) and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health of the National University of Singapore (NUS), along with 3 leading agencies in Thailand, Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), the Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (Public Organization) or TCELS, and the National Health Security Office (NHSO).

Dr. Yot Teerawattananon, Secretary General of the HITAP Foundation, and Dr. Wang Yi, Assistant Professor at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, said that it is a process for assessing the possible impacts of the use of technology in healthcare and it can evaluate factors that can advance a health innovation to be desirable and marketable. Additionally, it can also show whether it is a worth investing in research and development of a certain health innovation.

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