23 November 2017 - Health technologies are becoming increasingly complex and contemporary health technology assessment is only partly equipped to address this complexity. 

The project “Integrated assessments of complex health technologies” (INTEGRATE-HTA), funded by the European Commission, was initiated with the overall objective to develop concepts and methods to enable patient-centred, integrated assessments of the effectiveness, and the economic, social, cultural, and ethical issues of complex technologies that take context and implementation issues into account. 

The project resulted in a series of guidances that should support the work of HTA scientists and decision-makers alike.

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