Projects
By Murilo Contó | Chairman of HTA Division (2022-2025)
In order to reach the objectives for the 2022-2025, the IFMBE has assigned specific resources that the HTAD is implementing through 7 projects that reflect our 3 years-based strategy. Each project is constituted by a specific team and will deliver outcomes that contributes to the HTAD mission and to the overall IFMBE goals.
IFMBE-HTAD Capacity Building Program
| Outcome: Formal training on HTA to BMEs and generate HTA training contents for the IFMBE HTAD eLearning platform. Seminars, Workshops, Short-Courses about HTA concepts and best practices of this field on medical devices |
| Benefit: increase HTA culture among BME and share BME culture on HTA of medical devices among non-BME scholars. |
| Coordinator: Ernesto Iadanza and Daniel Clark |
| Deliverables: Summer schools; Seminars, Workshops, Short-Courses, Recorded lessons to feed the HTAD E-Training Platform |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Ernesto Iadanza, Dan Clark, Albert Poon, Piergiorgio Salerno |
Webinar Series on HTA in Medical Devices
| Outcome: promote one webinar a month in partnership with HTAD members and guests from other institutions involved in HTA practices (e.g., PAHO/WHO, ISPOR, HTAi, INAHTA) |
| Benefit: disseminate HTA practices among BMEs and non-BMEs. |
| Coordinator: Rossana Rivas |
| Deliverables: Lectures, short-courses/tracks, Recorded lessons to feed the HTAD E-Training Platform |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Rossana Rivas, Rossela di Bidino, Murilo Contó, Vatsal Chhaya |
HTA e-training platform for BMEs
| Outcome: deliver didactic materials on HTA specifically designed for BMEs and CEs, in the form of headnotes (e.g., transcribing lectures delivered during the IFMBE HTAD summer schools) and eLearning contents (i.e., post-processing of lectures videorecorded during the summer schools). |
| Benefit: increase HTA culture among BMEs and promote BME HTA-culture with non-BMEs. |
| Coordinator: Ernesto Iadanza |
| Deliverables: New courses/tracks for the platform. Written material (transcription of lectures, articles, books) |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Ernesto Iadanza, Piergiorgio Salerno, Nicolas Pallikarakis, Albert Poon, Carmelo de Maria |
Collaboration with International Organizations (Health Policies and HTA Practices)
| Outcome: Presence and participation of cooperation works with traditional organizations of Health Policies and HTA such as WHO, INAHTA, ISPOR, HTAi and national MoHs |
| Benefit: Projection and creation of a IFMBE-HTAD identity with presence and participation in the main forums and initiative about HTA |
| Coordinator: Murilo Contó |
| Deliverables: Presence and participation and Presence in the main Forums |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Murilo Contó, Rossana Rivas, Akriti Chahar, Vatsal Chhaya |
HTAD Strategic Communication & Advocacy
| Outcome: Activities for branding and presence of IFMBE-HTAD in main HTA Forums around the world to disseminate initiatives and needs to assess medical devices and the important role of BME in these processes |
| Benefit: Projection and creation of a IFMBE-HTAD identity with presence and participation in the main forums and initiative about HTA |
| Coordinator: Murilo Contó |
| Deliverables: Presence and participation and Presence in the main Forums |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Murilo Contó, Rossana Rivas, Mario Medvedec, Ernesto Iadnaza |
IFMBE HTAD Publications
| Outcome: Development and of different approach to assess medical devices and the important role of BME in these processes |
| Benefit: Creation of IFMBE-HTAD reference materials for HTA professionals working in the assessing of medical devices |
| Coordinator: Akriti Chahar |
| Deliverables: Guides, Articles, One Pages, Literature Reviews about relevant topics such as Research designs, RWE, Economic Evaluation, Quality of Evidence Tools, HTA Hospital-based, etc |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Murilo Contó, Rossana Rivas, Ernesto Iadanza, Vatsal Chhaya |
IFMBE HTAD Awards
| Outcome: recognize individuals and organizations that contribute to the promotion and support of BME in HTA with three IFMBE HTAD prizes: /1) Best Paper Award, to BME and CE publishing outstanding HTA papers to journal or conferences. /2) Policy Award, to policymakers or stakeholders giving significant contribution recognition to BME in HTA. /3) Outstanding Contribution Award to individual giving outstanding contributions to BME involvement in HTA. |
| Benefit: IFMBE-HTAD Recognition of relevant contributions of the HTA of medical devices field |
| Coordinator: Mario Medvedec |
| Deliverables: Guides, Articles, One Pages, Literature Reviews |
| Budget: TBD |
| Team: Rossana Rivas, Piergiorgio Salerno, Oriana Ciani, Murilo Contó, Ernesto Iadanza |