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Initiative overview
In the field of HTA, the role of the Agency is:
To participate in the activities of the Control Room, set up at the General Directorate for medical devices and of the pharmaceutical service of the Ministry of Health, with the task of defining the technologies that should have priority in being assessed, for healthcare purposes;
To coordinate the national network for collaboration among the Regions for the definition and use of instruments for governing medical devices and for Health Technology Assessment (HTA), called “National HTA Program of medical devices”;
To support the Regions through the establishment of the Interregional HTA Network (RIHTA) to enable the sharing of expertise available in Italy in the sector, and avoid duplication of assessments;
To promote the activities of the Centre for the observation of emerging health technologies (COTE) dedicated to technological advances that are likely to have a major impact on the NHS over a 3-5 year period, in view of the proliferation of emerging technologies requiring different evaluation methods.
