Strategy
Vision
IFMBE is the leading global scientific society organization for engineering in medicine and biology, federating national and transnational societies of biomedical and clinical engineers (BMEs). The IFMBE HTA Division is the IFMBE Unit aiming to support BMEs interested in HTA.
Mission
The IFMBE HTAD mission is to work proactively in collaboration with other scientific societies and agencies, in order to increase the HTA culture among BMEs, while increasing and promoting the BME culture among other HTA actors and stakeholders.
Our mission is based on three main enabling values that give to BME a unique position to contribute to the world knowledge in HTA field:
- BME unique know-how in the field of healthcare technology and particularly in medical devices research, development, assessment, acquisition and management
- BME multidisciplinary training and role: differently from other involved in HTA, BMEs are trained to have a proactive role in all the life cycle of medical devices (research, development, assessment, acquisition and management).
- BME multidisciplinary training and education: engineering, ICT, medicine, biology etc.
HTA is gaining importance in BME community as BME is gaining importance in HTA field. For instance, BME community is giving growing space to HTA in BME education, publications and profession. On the other side, BME contribution in HTA is fast growing.
Strategy 2022 – 2025
| 1. IFMBE-HTAD Capacity Building Program
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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 |
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Benefit: increase HTA culture among BME and share BME culture on HTA of medical devices among non-BME scholars. |
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Coordinator: Ernesto Iadanza and Daniel Clark |
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Deliverables: Summer schools; Seminars, Workshops, Short-Courses, Recorded lessons to feed the HTAD E-Training Platform |
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Budget: TBD |
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Team: Ernesto Iadanza, Dan Clark, Albert Poon, Piergiorgio Salerno |
| 2. 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 |
| 3. HTA e-training platform for BMEs
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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). |
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Benefit: increase HTA culture among BMEs and promote BME HTA-culture with non-BMEs. |
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Coordinator: Ernesto Iadanza |
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Deliverables: New courses/tracks for the platform. Written material (transcription of lectures, articles, books) |
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Budget: TBD |
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Team: Ernesto Iadanza, Piergiorgio Salerno, Nicolas Pallikarakis, Albert Poon, Carmelo de Maria |
| 4. Collaboration with International Organizations (Health Policies and HTA Practices)
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Outcome: Presence and participation of cooperation works with traditional organizations of Health Policies and HTA such as WHO, INAHTA, ISPOR, HTAi and national MoHs |
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Benefit: Projection and creation of a IFMBE-HTAD identity with presence and participation in the main forums and initiative about HTA |
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Coordinator: Murilo Contó |
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Deliverables: Presence and participation and Presence in the main Forums |
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Budget: TBD |
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Team: Murilo Contó, Rossana Rivas, Akriti Chahar, Vatsal Chhaya |
| 5. HTAD Strategic Communication & Advocacy
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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 |
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Benefit: Projection and creation of a IFMBE-HTAD identity with presence and participation in the main forums and initiative about HTA |
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Coordinator: Murilo Contó |
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Deliverables: Presence and participation and Presence in the main Forums |
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Budget: TBD |
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Team: Murilo Contó, Rossana Rivas, Mario Medvedec, Ernesto Iadnaza |
| 6. IFMBE HTAD Publications
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Outcome: Development and of different approach to assess medical devices and the important role of BME in these processes |
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Benefit: Creation of IFMBE-HTAD reference materials for HTA professionals working in the assessing of medical devices |
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Coordinator: Akriti Chahar |
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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 |
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Budget: TBD |
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Team: Murilo Contó, Rossana Rivas, Ernesto Iadanza, Vatsal Chhaya |
| 7. IFMBE HTAD Awards
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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. |
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Benefit: IFMBE-HTAD Recognition of relevant contributions of the HTA of medical devices field |
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Coordinator: Mario Medvedec |
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Deliverables: Guides, Articles, One Pages, Literature Reviews |
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Budget: TBD |
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Team: Rossana Rivas, Piergiorgio Salerno, Oriana Ciani, Murilo Contó, Ernesto Iadanza |