HTAi Special Interest Group on Conditional Coverage and Evidence Development for Promising Technologies
The board of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) has approved the formation of a Special Interest Group on Coverage with Evidence Development/Access with Development (CED/AED), facilitated by Kalipso Chalkidou and Sean Tunis. The group serves as a common forum for sharing and advancing work in this topic area. The SIG is currently considering the scope of interest which may include other forms of conditional reimbursement, such as risk sharing schemes.
The first agenda item for this SIG was for the collection of appropriate terminology to use for CED-like projects and how CED-like projects could be operationally defined. Having a common language to describe policy initiatives related to CED and other forms of conditional reimbursement allows for the facilitation of future collaboration and information exchange. After a lively and insightful discussion about the terminology to describe health technologies that are used in the context of data collection, Coverage with Evidence Development (CED), defined as any health policy initiative that links use of health care technology to a requirement for data collection, with the intent of informing future decision making, was deemed most appropriate.
Dev Menon and collegues from the University of Alberta are currently working with the listserv to create a structured inventory of all CED-like projects. This inventory will be invaluable in determining successful models, frequent challenges, and potential collaborative opportunities that will push CED forward to help ensure that healthcare decision-makers have sufficient evidence on emerging technologies upon which to base clinical and policy decisions in the future.
In order to accomplish this task, a brief questionnaire has been circulated to obtain basic information about completed, ongoing, or planned projects that involve "Coverage with Evidence Development." This form is also available on the Special Interest Group portion of the HTAi website. The inventory collected will be available to all members of the HTAi CED Special Interest Group. If you have any questions, please contact randee.kastner@cmtpnet.org
To view a summary of our Special Interest Group's most recent activities, click here.
