HTA & ICTs: Can they interface?Plenary Session 27.6.2012HTAi2012 Bilbao, Spain

1. HTA & ICTs: Can they interface?
Plenary Session 27.6.2012
HTAi2012 Bilbao, Spain
Dr. Persephone Doupi
Information Department, THL, Finland

2. eHealth on the road to evidence:
proposed approaches
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5. STARE-HI – reporting of evaluation studies in
Health Informatics
• Follow up to the Declaration of Innsbruck (2004)
• Endorsed by EFMI, AMIA (2007) and IMIA (2008)
• Objectives:
– Increase study transparency
– Place studies in context
– Allow assessment of validity and transferrability
ULTIMATELY:
IMPROVE QUALITY of Health Informatics studies
Contribute to:
Vision of EBM-based Health Informatics
(combining quantitative & qualitative aspects)
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7. GEP-HI: Guideline for good evaluation practice
in Health Informatics
Product of lengthy, informal consensus seeking (2004-10)
OBJECTIVE:
• Development of a good practice guideline to plan and
perform scientifically robust evaluation studies in health
informatics.
• A comprehensive list of issues to be addressed presented as
a guideline for good evaluation practice in health informatics
(GEP-HI).
• Support better handling of an evaluation study, potentially
leading to a higher quality of evaluation studies.
• Step towards building stronger evidence and thus
progressing towards evidence-based health informatics.
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9. ISO Health informatics — Quality criteria for
services and systems for telehealth
• ISO/DTS 13131 - ISO/TC 215/WG 2
• growing number of initiatives in various countries around the
world, most of them small-scale that label themselves as
telemedicine or telehealth
• Normalization can contribute to the alignment and
harmonization of telehealth activities.
• important to define telehealth more clearly for a safe, speedy
and socio-economic acceptable introduction of the healthcare
delivery at a distance.
• Aim of this document: improve communications among the
various interested parties and stimulate the application of
telehealth in the health and healthcare sector.
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10. The MAST model: bringing the HTA approach
to telemedicine evaluation
MAST = Model for ASsessment of Telemedicine
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 28:1 (2012), 44–51
• Product of the MethoTelemed project (EC-funded, 2008)
• Based on workshops and using the EUnetHTA Core HTA
Model as a starting point
• A multidisciplinary process that summarizes and evaluates
information about the clinical, economic, organizational and
socio-ethical issues related to the use of telemedicine, in a
systematic, unbiased and robust manner.
• Renewing Health: large-scale project (18 pilot sites, in 8
groups, distributed over 9 EU regions) on real-life
implementation of TM services uses & validates MAST
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11. Back to synergies: eHealth for HTA?
• Era of discipline convergence
• Largely triggered by availability of (electronic)
data and IT-tools
• eHealth/Health Informatics:
focus & expertise on
representation, collection, analysis and
dissemination of health (and social care)
data, information & knowledge
• High quality data – essential to reliable HTA
results
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12. PARENT- cross border PAtient REgistries
iNiTiative: Joint Action Profile
• Start: May 2012
• Duration: 30 months
(end: 10/2014)
• Budget: 3.4 M€ (60% EC)
• 11 Associated partners
• 12+ Collaborating partners
• Kick-off meeting and first
workshop (Introduction to EU
level patient registries state of
the art) – Brussels, 13.6.2012
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13. MAIN AND ASSOCIATED PARTNERS
Country Partner
Slovenia National Institute of Public Health, MoH
Malta Ministry of Health, the Elderly & Community Care
Slovakia Národné centrum zdravotníckych informácií
Portugal Direcção-Geral da Saúde
Croatia National Institute of Public Health
Finland National Institute of Health and Welfare
Hungary National Institute for Quality- and Organizational
Development in Healthcare and Medicines
Italy MoH
Spain Centro Superior De Investigación En Salud
Pública/Dirección General De Salud Pública
Greece National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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14. COLLABORATING PARTNERS
Country Partner
Austria MoH
Poland MoH
Estonia MoSocial Affairs
Belgium Public Health, Food Chain Control and Environment
Cyprus MoH
Denmark National Board of Health
Spain MoH
Sweden National Board of Health and Welfare
EU/UK European Medicines Agency
Romania National Health Insurance House
France Institut national de la santé et de la recherché medicale
Intl./UK European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Latvia The Centre of Health Economics
and others.
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15. Thank you!
Contact for further details
persephone.doupi@thl.fi
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