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: “Latin American Experiences in Health Technology Assessment in Hospitals”, to be held on Friday, June 23, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (EDT/WDC). It will have simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and English.

How to take part

• DAY: Friday June 23, 2023
• HOUR: 10:00 – 11:30 EDT [check local time in other cities at the end]
• RECORD: Register here. After registering you will receive an email confirmation with the link to participate.
• LANGUAGES: Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation.

Context

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its life cycle. Its purpose is to inform decision-making to promote equitable, efficient and high-quality health systems. Although its greatest development focused on informing the incorporation of health technologies at national levels, more recently, and due to the availability of new technologies at the institutional level, the use of HTA to support decision making in hospitals has advanced. Hospital HTAs analyze whether or not the evaluated technologies provide a benefit for the specific population served at the institution and determine the organizational impact of the investment or disinvestment analyzed. 

About the webinar

The objective of this virtual seminar is to present some experiences of selected institutions in the region that have adopted hospital STD as a tool in decision-making at the institutional level.

Diary

36th Edition of the RedETSA Webinar Program:  “Latin American Experiences in Health Technology Assessment in Hospitals”

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

10:10 – 10:25 EDT – Presentation by Graciela Demirdjian, STD Unit Coordinator, Garrahan Hospital, Argentina

10:25 – 10:40 EDT – Presentation by Virgilio Failoc Rojas, ETS Functional Unit Evaluator, INEN, Peru

10:40 – 10:55 EDT – Presentation by Vanessa Teich, Director of Health Economics, Albert Einstein Hospital, Brazil

10:55 – 11:25 EDT – Questions and Answers

11:25 – 11:30 EDT – Closing of the Webinar

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. – Bogotá, 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, Hamilton, Montevideo, Paramaribo
• 4:00 pm. – Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona

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