Health Technology Assessment

These HTAs recommend the introduction of referral and treatment guidelines for four scheduled surgical procedures to ultimately improve patient access to beneficial surgery.

HTA-scheduled-surgical-procedures-background.pdf

HTA-Cataract-Surgery-April13.pdf

HTA-Tonsillectomy-April13.pdf

HTA-Grommet-Adenoidectomy-April-13.pdf

HTA-Varicose-Vein-April-13.pdf

HTA on the monitoring of women under 50 years of age at a higher risk of breast cancer due to a genetic predisposition or a strong family history.

HTA-breast-cancer-NCCP.pdf

HTA-breast-cancer-exec-summary.pdf

HTA-breast-cancer-technical.pdf

The results of a health technology assessment (HTA) of a national deep brain stimulation (DBS) programme for adults with movement disorders have been published by the Authority. This HTA shows that the current system where patients are routinely referred to the UK for treatment costs less than a proposed service provided nationally.

HTA-Deep-Brain-Stimulation-Service.pdf

HTA-DBS-Executive-Summary.pdf

HTA-DBS-advice-to-the-HSE.pdf

HTA-DBS-Technical-Report.pdf

This report contains HIQA’s advice to the HSE on whether a change in the existing Irish guidelines for the management of HIV-1 in pregnancy is warranted.

Econ-evaluation-HIV-pregnancy.pdf

A health technology assessment of robot-assisted keyhole surgery has concluded that while the benefits to patients in certain surgical procedures are evident, the cost of its introduction would be significant.

HTA-robot-assisted-surgery.pdf

These Guidelines set out to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of health technologies for the Irish health service. They provide direction on how to measure the ability of a healthcare technology to make a significant difference to a patient’s health status.

HTA-Clinical-Effectiveness-Guidelines.pdf

The purpose of these guidelines is to assist those conducting or using HTA in Ireland. They also inform health technology suppliers who prepare applications for reimbursement. These draft guidelines are now available for consultation.

Draft-HTA-Clinical-Effectiveness-Guidelines.pdf

This health technology assessment (HTA) examined the potential for a new technology, prion filtration, to reduce the risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) transmission from the transfusion of red cell concentrates (RCC) in Ireland.

HTA-Prion-Filtration.pdf

Colorectal cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and women in this country. During the time period 2002 to 2005, an average of 2,040 new cases of colorectal cancer were diagnosed each year. During the same time period, an average of 925 people died each year from the disease.

In June 2009, the Minister for Health and Children requested the Authority to:

Colorectal_cancer_evaluation_report_HTA.pdf

This document, Guidelines for Budget Impact Analysis of Health Technologies in Ireland is a complementary document to the Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies in Ireland (2010). They are limited to methodological guidance on the conduct of budget impact analysis and are intended to promote best practice in budget impact analysis (BIA). They will be reviewed and revised as necessary. The purpose of these BIA guidelines is to assist those conducting or using BIA as part of HTA in Ireland.

HTA_Guidelines_for_Budget_Impact_Analysis.pdf