Managing the introduction of genomic applications into the National Health Service: A special challenge for health technology assessment in Italy.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, the rapid proliferation of genomic tests for use in clinical practice has prompted healthcare systems to use a health technology assessment (HTA) approach to distinguish valuable from unwarranted applications. In this study, we narratively review the Italian HTA mechanisms for medical devices (MDs), both at the national and regional levels, and discuss the opportunity and benefits of extending them to genomic technologies, for which a dedicated assessment path was advocated by the National Plan for Public Health Genomics in 2017. We found that the National Health Technology Assessment Program for MDs, completed in 2019, had developed a structured pathway for the HTA of MDs; it established a hub-and-spoke structure, run by a governmental institution, and put in place transp

SUBMITTER: Pitini E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9399489 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature