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Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India
India is at crossroads with a commitment by the government to universal health coverage (UHC), driving efficiency and tackling waste across the public healthcare sector. Health technology assessment (HTA) is an important policy reform that can assist policy-makers to tackle inequities and inefficien...
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author | Downey, Laura E Mehndiratta, Abha Grover, Ashoo Gauba, Vijay Sheikh, Kabir Prinja, Shankar Singh, Ravinder Cluzeau, Francoise A Dabak, Saudamini Teerawattananon, Yot Kumar, Sanjiv Swaminathan, Soumya |
author_facet | Downey, Laura E Mehndiratta, Abha Grover, Ashoo Gauba, Vijay Sheikh, Kabir Prinja, Shankar Singh, Ravinder Cluzeau, Francoise A Dabak, Saudamini Teerawattananon, Yot Kumar, Sanjiv Swaminathan, Soumya |
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description | India is at crossroads with a commitment by the government to universal health coverage (UHC), driving efficiency and tackling waste across the public healthcare sector. Health technology assessment (HTA) is an important policy reform that can assist policy-makers to tackle inequities and inefficiencies by improving the way in which health resources are allocated towards cost-effective, appropriate and feasible interventions. The equitable and efficient distribution of health budget resources, as well as timely uptake of good value technologies, are critical to strengthen the Indian healthcare system. The government of India is set to establish a Medical Technology Assessment Board to evaluate existing and new health technologies in India, assist choices between comparable technologies for adoption by the healthcare system and improve the way in which priorities for health are set. This initiative aims to introduce a more transparent, inclusive, fair and evidence-based process by which decisions regarding the allocation of health resources are made in India towards the ultimate goal of UHC. In this analysis article, we report on plans and progress of the government of India for the institutionalisation of HTA in the country. Where India is home to one-sixth of the global population, improving the health services that the population receives will have a resounding impact not only for India but also for global health. |
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spelling | pubmed-57179472017-12-08 Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India Downey, Laura E Mehndiratta, Abha Grover, Ashoo Gauba, Vijay Sheikh, Kabir Prinja, Shankar Singh, Ravinder Cluzeau, Francoise A Dabak, Saudamini Teerawattananon, Yot Kumar, Sanjiv Swaminathan, Soumya BMJ Glob Health Analysis India is at crossroads with a commitment by the government to universal health coverage (UHC), driving efficiency and tackling waste across the public healthcare sector. Health technology assessment (HTA) is an important policy reform that can assist policy-makers to tackle inequities and inefficiencies by improving the way in which health resources are allocated towards cost-effective, appropriate and feasible interventions. The equitable and efficient distribution of health budget resources, as well as timely uptake of good value technologies, are critical to strengthen the Indian healthcare system. The government of India is set to establish a Medical Technology Assessment Board to evaluate existing and new health technologies in India, assist choices between comparable technologies for adoption by the healthcare system and improve the way in which priorities for health are set. This initiative aims to introduce a more transparent, inclusive, fair and evidence-based process by which decisions regarding the allocation of health resources are made in India towards the ultimate goal of UHC. In this analysis article, we report on plans and progress of the government of India for the institutionalisation of HTA in the country. Where India is home to one-sixth of the global population, improving the health services that the population receives will have a resounding impact not only for India but also for global health. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5717947/ /pubmed/29225927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000259 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Analysis Downey, Laura E Mehndiratta, Abha Grover, Ashoo Gauba, Vijay Sheikh, Kabir Prinja, Shankar Singh, Ravinder Cluzeau, Francoise A Dabak, Saudamini Teerawattananon, Yot Kumar, Sanjiv Swaminathan, Soumya Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India |
title | Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India |
title_full | Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India |
title_fullStr | Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India |
title_short | Institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the Medical Technology Assessment Board in India |
title_sort | institutionalising health technology assessment: establishing the medical technology assessment board in india |
topic | Analysis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000259 |
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