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Health Technology Assessment

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HTA is a multidisciplinary process that summarises information about the medical, social, economic, and ethical issues related to the use of health technology in a systematic, transparent, unbiased, robust manner.

Its aim is to inform the formulation of safe, effective health policies that are patient focused and seek to achieve best value. Despite its policy goals, HTA must always be firmly rooted in research and scientific methods.

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M

Marketing Authorization Application (MAA)

The marketing of medicinal products is conditioned by regulators’ approval, in order to ensure that…

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C

Committee for Advanced Therapy (CAT)

The Committee for Advanced Therapies (CAT) is the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) committee responsible for…

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