scholarly journals A Technology Assessment Tool for Evaluation of VOC Abatement Technologies from Solvent Based Industrial Coating Operations

10.5772/45745 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhananjai S. ◽  
William A. ◽  
Michael Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Industrial Coating ◽  
Voc Abatement

VP24 The Development Of A Quality Management Tool For Health Technology Assessment Agencies In Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Sergio Márquez-Peláez ◽  
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea ◽  
José Asua ◽  
Teresa Molina-Lopez ◽  
José Luis Castro-Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Good Practices

INTRODUCTION:The Spanish National Network (REDETS) is a group of eight agencies, units and services, depending on National and Regional Governments that coordinate their work within a common methodological framework, guided by the principles of mutual recognition and cooperation. The necessity of considering a Quality Management System has been detected and, consequently, a common tool for all the members needs to be developed. We describe in this study the process to achieve that goal.METHODS:Based on both a review of previous literature and the proposal for a self-evaluating tool, a group of experts from each agency through consensus have developed a tool for self-evaluation in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies. Through the structure described in the handbook of the Andalusian Agency for Healthcare Quality (ACSA), each standard should have a statement or proposal that needs to also include evidence or good practices, and the corresponding evaluation questions. In separate workgroups, the definition of these proposals, evidence and evaluation questions were developed. One face-to-face meeting and two meetings via teleconference were necessary to achieve a final document with all the quality standards.RESULTS:From a proposed structure of sixty-six standards, the titles, definitions, statements and evidence as well as good practices and evaluation questions were established in workgroups with consensus among all of the members (1 - 3). The final version of the self-assessment tool was composed of sixty-eight standards, grouped in twelve quality criteria structured in four dimensions: I Responsibility, II Clients and Stakeholders, III Production Process, and IV Resources.CONCLUSIONS:Quality management requires an evaluation tool and this version, based on a systematic review and consensus, is a useful and practical instrument for developing a handbook by each member of REDETS. An online version of the tool is in process of development.

4 Technology Assessment Tool (A Systems Engineering Approach to Assessing U.S. Department of Energy Technology Proposals)

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 666-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Rynearson ◽  
John Nonte ◽  
John G. Richardson ◽  
Donald E. Sebo ◽  
W. Brooks Cooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Energy Technology ◽  
Engineering Approach

Distributed Agile Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 1633-1655
Author(s):  
Asif Qumer Gill
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Adaptive Development

Organizations have shown a significant interest in the adoption of emerging social technologies to support communication and collaboration needs of their Distributed Agile or Adaptive Development Environment (DADE). However, the challenge is how best to assess contemporary social technologies for supporting communication and collaboration in the DADE. Here, a communication technology assessment tool, called CTAT, is developed as a part of the Adaptive Enterprise Service System (AESS) toolkit by using the design research approach. This paper presents the evaluation of the CTAT construct through its use in the assessment of three social technologies within the context of a DADE. The results of this evaluation indicate that CTAT is shown to be useful, for example, when assessing a particular social technology for a specific DADE communication and collaboration context. The CTAT is intended to be used by senior developers for assessing social technologies for their DADE context.

scholarly journals The application of Health Technology Assessment to health apps: what is the evidence?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C de Waure ◽  
I Giacchetta ◽  
S Violi ◽  
C Martini ◽  
C Favaretti
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Clinical Effectiveness ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Core Model ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Health Apps

Abstract Background In the last years, many health apps have been developed to support citizens' and patients' health management. Nevertheless, a thorough evaluation is necessary to support the decision to incorporate them into healthcare systems. Health technology assessment (HTA) could be considered a valid evaluation tool allowing considering different stakeholders' perspectives. This research aimed to look for studies that applied HTA to health apps and to analyze feasibility and limits of HTA in this field. Methods A systematic review was performed considering three databases, namely PubMed, Web of Science (WoS) and University of York-Centre for Reviews and Dissemination database. Being the topic of health app assessment new, articles were considered eligible if they assessed at least two of the domains of the HTA core model suggested by the European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA). Furthermore, only articles published in English in the last 5 years were considered. Results A total of 850 articles were found: 383 articles from PubMed, 462 from WoS and 5 from York. After removing duplicates, 708 articles remained and 43 were eventually included after the screening process. Seven articles were focused on apps used by healthcare professionals, while 36 dealt with apps aimed to support patients. None of the papers explicitly mentioned HTA as assessment tool. Indeed, not all the domains of the HTA core model were assessed in any article. Apps' technical description, clinical effectiveness and social aspects were the domains considered more often. On the contrary, costs and economic evaluation was clearly faced by one article only. Conclusions Even though the scientific literature on health apps is growing, the adoption of standardized methods for their evaluation, such as HTA, is still scant. This might be due to peculiarities of health apps and points out the importance of adapting existing methods in order to let a thorough assessment possible.

scholarly journals PP023 Applying Oncology Patient Registries As A Health Technology Assessment Tool

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 80-80
Author(s):  
Alexander Kostyuk ◽  
Alexandr Kostyuk ◽  
Amangali Akanov
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Dynamic Monitoring ◽  
Patient Registries ◽  
Oncology Patient ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Pragmatic Clinical Trials

INTRODUCTION:The limited healthcare resources have to be invested efficiently; Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is applied ever more often in many health care systems for “rational decision-making”. The oncology patient registries (OPR) track the eligibility of patients and the complete flow of treatments, guaranteeing appropriateness in use of pharmaceutical products, according to approved indications.METHODS:Normative legal acts and other regulatory documents in the field of oncology medical and pharmaceutical activity, include content and maintenance oncology registries. The system, process and information analysis, direct observation, comparative analysis, logical modelling, sociological methods (surveys and expert opinions) are applied.RESULTS:A temporary coverage/funding of oncology drugs often requires additional collection of data on safety, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and the appropriate use of the drug. Many of the oncology drugs show little or marginal effectiveness at time of approval and reimbursement agencies demand further data before deciding whether to cover the new drug. Pragmatic clinical trials, patient access schemes and standard data requirements on patient relevant outcomes in OPR are some of the approaches to generate further evidence and to fill the gap between knowledge on efficacy at time of approval and demanded knowledge on effectiveness for coverage decisions. For each monitored drug, patients eligible for treatment are registered in the specific therapeutic indication dynamic monitoring database to collect epidemiologic and clinical data, including data on the safety profile, and ex-post information missing at first evaluation stage.CONCLUSIONS:OPR provide a detailed view of the morbidity, mortality and resource utilization associated with an oncologies diseases entity. This data is of prime importance in coming to decisions on coverage of a drug or treatment. The collation of information is also quick and efficient owing to better methods of data management. OPR of Kazakhstan are equipped with sophisticated data processing software and technologies.

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