Health Technologies in Health Systems
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 34078
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health policy; health technologies; health technology assessment; access with evidence development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A health technology is defined by international health technology assessment authorities as an intervention developed to prevent, diagnose, or treat medical conditions; promote health; provide rehabilitation; or organize healthcare delivery. It can be a test, device, medicine, vaccine, procedure, program, or system. Over the past 50 years, health systems worldwide have become increasingly health-technology-reliant. The speed of technological innovation around the world has seen the development of a wide range of health technologies that continue to push the frontiers of healthcare organization, delivery, and financing. Although they are generally designed to improve health outcomes, many of them raise much broader questions of ethics, access, values, etc., particularly when choices have to be made between technologies in the face of limited budgets. This Special Issue is intended to provoke thought into these broader impacts of health technologies on health systems. We welcome papers that deal with the following topics:
- How health systems encourage technological innovation;
- Studies on health system transformation through the adoption of health technologies;
- Cross-jurisdictional studies on the implementation of innovative technologies;
- The impact of health technologies on the health workforce;
- Whole systems approaches to technology adoption and implementation;
- Alternative approaches to financing health technologies;
- The impact of COVID-19 on health technology development;
- Technology decision-making processes in health systems;
- Approaches to measuring the broad impact of health technologies on health systems.
However, our solicitation is not limited to the above topics, and manuscripts on other relevant topics are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Devidas Menon
Dr. Tania Stafinski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- technology innovation in health systems
- health system transformation
- decision-making on new technologies
- health technology financing
- impact of technologies on the workforce
- comparative studies of health technologies
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