Executive summary 2020 will go down in history as the year when the global community was
awakened to the fragility of human health and the interdependence of the ecosystem …

Background Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models and tools have been
used increasingly in health technology assessment (HTA), with several studies pointing out …

Abstract Background Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has been widely recognized as
informing healthcare decision-making, and interest in HTA of medical devices has been …

Assessing medical devices (MDs) raises challenges which require us to reflect on whether
current methods are adequate. Major features of devices are:(i) device–operator interaction …

In the drive towards faster patient access to treatments, health technology assessment (HTA)
agencies are increasingly faced with reliance on evidence from surrogate endpoints …

Medical devices (MDs) have distinctive features, such as incremental innovation, dynamic
pricing, the learning curve and organisational impact, that need to be considered when they …

The growing number of emerging medical technologies and sophistication of modern
medical devices (MDs) that improve both survival and quality of life indexes are often …

There are particular characteristics of Medical Devices, such as the device–user interaction,
the incremental nature of innovation and the broader organizational impact that lead to …

Background Implementation and uptake of health technology assessment for evaluating
medical devices require including aspects that different stakeholders consider relevant …

Implementing medical devices into a clinical setting is a complex and lengthy process.
Existing models, such as Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation, try to elucidate this process …