VOLUME 31: HTA'S EVOLUTION: From CONSUMER to HONEST BROKER to ENGAGED COLLABORATOR

Abstract

In this issue, Facey and colleagues have eloquently summarized the product of the February 2015 HTAi Policy Forum discussion - the need for health technology assessment (HTA) to shift from a historically reactive role in both evaluating current evidence and requesting additional evidence generation to a more proactive role engaging with stakeholders to ensure that evidence produced is appropriate for any given intervention at different stages of the clinical development program. This makes logical a priori sense, of course, as proactive and engaged discussion is always superior to reactive and potentially adversarial interaction.