On December 19, a round table “Hospital Health Technology Assessment: Experience of a Pilot Project at the M.M. Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery” was held at the NAMS of Ukraine. The event was organized by USAID/SAFEMed with the support of the MoH of Ukraine. About 30 participants took part: representatives of the MoH, the Center, the NHSU, the MPU and institutes of the NAMS of Ukraine.
During the round table, those present discussed the progress of implementing hospital HTA in Ukraine and the results of the pilot HTA project directly at a healthcare facility.
“HTA has already proven itself as an effective tool in Ukraine's healthcare system. Thanks to HTA, more clinically effective and cost-effective medicines and treatment regimens have become available to patients. Today we saw how the use of HTA at the level of healthcare facilities can become an effective mechanism for the rational use of financial resources and promote informed management decisions on introducing medical technologies into, or removing them from, real clinical practice,” said Mykhailo Babenko, commenting on the results of the pilot project implementation.
Recall that Ukraine’s first pilot project on hospital HTA became possible thanks to the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Center, the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bogomolets National Medical University and the international organization Management Sciences for Health. It concerned the use of the technology of an aortic valve “with a skirt” for TAVI endoprosthetic replacement in aortic valve stenosis.
