Early Stage Healthcare Technology Assessment

Early health technology assessment (eHTA) is increasingly being used to support health economic evidence development during early stages of clinical research. Such early models can be used to inform research and development about the design and management of new medical technologies to mitigate the risks, perceived by industry and the public sector, associated with market access and reimbursement. There is an increasing interest in the eHTA of medical devices. While most of the early work is about informing drug development, there has been a rapid increase in studies evaluating medical devices since 2006. This chapter after briefly recalling some key concepts of HTA, introduces some eHTA methods.