During the 24th Annual Meeting of the Network for Evidence-Based Medicine (March 22-24, 2023 in Potsdam, Germany), HTA.de organized a workshop on the topic “Environmental Impact: a new dimension in the assessment of medical devices?“, in collaboration with the Network’s HTA Department. Issues related to the environmental footprint of health Read more…
Less than two years before the new European Medical Device Directive (MDR) comes into force, HTA.de, together with the DGSMP and the Network for Evidence-based Medicine, has drawn an interim conclusion to the discussion on the evaluation of examination and treatment methods with medical devices. For this purpose a workshop Read more…
This series of workshops was aimed in particular at authors and users of HTA reports, health policy decision-makers, experts in applied ethics and all those interested in the further development of the evaluation of ethical aspects in HTA. They were organized by HTA.de in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Dr. Daniel Read more…
In its 2014 report, which was presented in June, the Advisory Council on the Assessment of Developments in the Health Care Sector (http://www.svr-gesundheit.de) carried out an analysis of the regulation and reimbursement of medical devices. Chapter 3 analyses in detail their definition and classification, market overview, regulation and reimbursability in Read more…
The HTA Section of the Network for Evidence-based Medicine and HTA.de organized a workshop on medical devices at the 15th annual conference of the Network for Evidence-Based Medicine in March 2014. The presentation slides can be downloaded here. A detailed report has been published in the Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung Read more…
The aim of the workshop held on 28 November 2012 in Cologne was to examine the current, constantly fueled discussion on medical devices from various perspectives. The symposium was organized by the GMDS working groups “HTA”, “Methodology of Systematic Reviews”, “Medical Decision Making” and “Health Economics” as well as the Read more…
HTA.de supports a petition of European experts on medical device law. In September 2012, the EU Commission’s proposal for the reform of medical device law was submitted to the European Parliament. In the opinion of numerous experts, the proposal is unsuitable to remedy the current inadequate practice in certification (market Read more…