The Pan American Health Organization and the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA) invite you to a new edition of the RedETSA Webinar Program entitled: “Health Technology Assessment in Hospitals: Advances and Challenges,” to be held on Friday, May 19, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (EDT/WDC). The event will feature simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

How to take part

• DAY: Friday, May 19, 2023
• HOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 EDT [check local time in other cities at the end]
• RECORD: https://paho-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hy-Uh5L3TZyZ7XG7fU5jhQ
  • After registering you will receive an email confirmation with the link to participate.
• LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation.

Context

The most recent definition of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) states that it is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its life cycle. HTA has been used worldwide to inform decision-making in health systems at different levels by producing information on different dimensions (clinical, ethical, economic, social, operational). Although its greatest development focused on informing policy formulation at the macro level (at the level of countries or states/provinces), more recently, and due to the availability of new technologies at the institutional level, an “organizational” perspective has emerged for the application of HTA principles and methods. Hospital HTAs analyze whether or not the assessed technologies provide a benefit for the specific population served in the institution and determine the organizational impact of the investment or disinvestment analyzed.

About the webinar

The objective of this webinar is to present the advances and challenges of hospital HTA as a tool for decision-making at an institutional level.

Diary

35th Edition of the RedETSA Webinar Program: “ETS in Hospitals: Advances and Challenges”

10:00 – 10:05 EDT – Opening and Welcome

10:05 – 10:25 EDT – Presentation by Laura Sampietro-Colom (Hospital Clinic Barcelona)

10:25 – 10:45 EDT – Presentation by Marisa Santos (INC Brazil)

10:45 – 11:20 EDT – Q&A

11:20 – 11:30 EDT – Closing

Time correspondence

• 7:00 am – Los Angeles, Vancouver
• 8:00 am. – Belmopan, Guatemala City, Managua, Mexico City, San Jose (CR), San Salvador, Tegucigalpa
• 9:00 am. – Bogota, Panama City, Kingston, Lima, Quito, Cayman Islands
• 10:00 am. – Asunción, Bridgetown, Caracas, Castries, Georgetown, Havana, La Paz, Nassau, Ottawa, Port-au-Prince, Port of Spain, San Juan, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Washington DC 
• 11:00 pm – Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo, Paramaribo
• 4:00 pm. – Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona

For other cities, please check the local time in the following link