Editor’s Note: Technology’s evolution continues to outstrip society’s ability to absorb it without significant disruption. Legislators often cope with a headline in one hand and the draft of a bill in ...

The EU wants to strengthen EU cooperation on health technology assessment (HTA). The main purpose of HTA is to provide policy-makers with evidence-based information, so they can formulate health ...

Congress must deal with a growing number of issues that new technological developments are forcing on the nation. I deliberately write “forcing” because the way technology works, no one asks the ...

The Opportunities and Challenges of Rethinking Our Approach to Value Assessment in Healthcare As America’s healthcare system continues to evolve, it is critical that our perception of care and its ...

History is replete with stories of poor decisions—catastrophes that leaders might have averted, and great opportunities that people somehow missed. In 1876, William Orton, president of Western Union, ...

Many researchers working on health technology assessments (HTAs) are keen to address disparities in health care. But the COVID-19 pandemic and recent prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement have ...

A white paper published by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) established a series of recommendations and guidelines for health technology assessment that aim to address health care ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has published a technology report with the results of first responders’ operational assessments of the Pendar X10 Handheld ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — More than 20 military working dog teams from across the Army converged on Fort Leonard Wood last week to participate in an assessment of a new explosives detection training ...

Member states agreed today on a mandate to start negotiations with the European Parliament on a legislative proposal concerning joint work on health technology assessment for the benefit of patients.

The public outcry to “do something” about health care spending keeps growing, but fear about what that might entail stymies action. Americans need affordable, accessible, and innovative health care.

For countries looking to introduce nuclear power or expand their programmes, selecting the most suitable reactor technology can be a daunting process. Everything from site selection and performance ...