Editor’s Note: Technology’s evolution continues to outstrip society’s ability to absorb it without significant disruption. Legislators often cope with a headline in one hand and the draft of a bill in ...

Congress must deal with a growing number of issues that new technological developments are forcing on the nation. I deliberately write “forcing” because the way technology works, no one asks the ...

Could agriculture face a Southwest-type meltdown? Southwest Airlines faced a perfect storm last December when it was forced to cancel more than 15,000 flights. The primary cause? An antiquated ...

The Opportunities and Challenges of Rethinking Our Approach to Value Assessment in Healthcare As America’s healthcare system continues to evolve, it is critical that our perception of care and its ...

For a time, Congress had exactly that, in the form of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). But lawmakers shuttered it 30 years ago, and we’re still feeling its absence today. “It was an ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has published a technology report with the results of first responders’ operational assessments of the Pendar X10 Handheld ...

A white paper published by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) established a series of recommendations and guidelines for health technology assessment that aim to address health care ...

Many researchers working on health technology assessments (HTAs) are keen to address disparities in health care. But the COVID-19 pandemic and recent prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement have ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — More than 20 military working dog teams from across the Army converged on Fort Leonard Wood last week to participate in an assessment of a new explosives detection training ...

The University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy in the College of Health Sciences has launched a new certificate program aimed at providing practicing pharmacists, other health professionals and health ...

Member states agreed today on a mandate to start negotiations with the European Parliament on a legislative proposal concerning joint work on health technology assessment for the benefit of patients.