Thomas Desmet, Elaine Julian, Walter Van Dyck, Isabelle Huys, Steven Simoens, Rosa Giuliani, Mondher Toumi, Christian Dierks, Juliana Dierks, Antonella Cardone, Francois Houÿez, Mira Pavlovic, Michael Berntgen, Peter Mol, Anja Schiel, Wim Goettsch, Fabrizio Gianfrate, Stefano Capri, James Ryan, Pierre Ducournau, Oriol Solà-Morales, Jörg Ruof
OBJECTIVES: Stakeholder involvement has long been considered a success factor for a joint European health technology assessment (HTA) process, and its relevance is now anchored in the EU HTA Regulation's (EU HTAR) legislative wording. Therefore, we aimed to explore the roles, challenges, and most important activities to increase the level of involvement per stakeholder group. METHODS: At the 2022 Fall Convention of the European Access Academy (EAA), working groups addressed the involvement of patients, clinicians, regulators, health technology developers (HTD), and national HTA bodies and payers within the EU HTA process...
March 2024: Journal of Market Access & Health Policy