These resources have been packaged in a manner that will allow you to develop the knowledge and skills required to manage health care technologies based on their cost-effectiveness. Tighter health care budgets mean constant pressure to do more with less.
Manufacturers engage in persuasive marketing to the public, to managers, and to clinicians.
Technology assessment agencies offer critical reviews and other relevant summary information to regional health care agencies, but many health care providers and managers lack the expertise to evaluate and apply the critical appraisal information they receive. Clinicians and patients also need to know enough to decide whether and how the research evidence about the alternatives applies to specific individual patients. Wise use of technology requires critical appraisal of the available literature, and the use of local knowledge. Week by week, our units will help health care professionals to develop the skills and knowledge to do health technology assessment and to incorporate the results in their decisions. Health care managers Physicians, nurses, and other care providers Health care data experts and policy analysts Health care systems professionals Students of health information science or health informatics Health care professionals of all types can benefit from using Internet and other HTA resources as they design and implement their own local HTA procedures.