Welcome to the Center for Medical Technology Policy

The Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP) is a private, non-profit organization that provides a neutral forum in which patients, clinicians, payers, manufacturers and researchers can work together to design and implement prospective, real world studies to inform health care decisions.  The primary goal of CMTP is to improve the process for generating reliable and credible information about the real world risks, benefits and costs of promising new medical technologies.

CMTP focuses on a range of methods for evaluating comparative effectiveness, including pragmatic trials, adaptive designs, clinical registries, and other study designs that generate evidence that will provide patients, clinicians and payers with a reasonable level of confidence in their decision making. 

 The specific objectives of the CMTP are to:

• Fully incorporate the perspectives of health care decision makers in research priorities and the study design, recognizing the importance of including patients and consumers as fellow decision-makers.
• Ensure the rapid development and adoption of valuable technologies, and the efficient and appropriate use of these technologies.
• Limit the adoption and use of technologies of limited or uncertain benefit.
• Maintain incentives for innovators and investors to develop new high value technologies
• Develop a collaborative model of health care research for other organizations interested in expanding the supply of relevant and reliable evidence for decision makers.

Continuing with efforts to promote Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), CMTP will hold a CER Institute July 25 - 27, 2011 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Visit the CER Institute website for additional information and registration. 

The California HealthCare Foundation and the  Blue Shield of California Foundation have provided initial funding for CMTP.  The Center for Medical Technology Policy is located in Baltimore, MD.