Health technology assessment (HTA) is increasingly playing an important role in informing reimbursement and pricing decisions across the world. This forum will present the results from a global survey assessing current methods in health technology assessment and its application in reimbursement decisions; will present models of the health-care decision making processes specifically for coverage and reimbursement of emerging new technologies, and will introduce the Global Health Care Systems Road Map, an initiative to provide an overview of country-specific health care delivery systems, reimbursement and pricing approval processes, using the examples of Canada and France.

Moderator: Jalpa A. Doshi PhD, Co-Chair HTA and Good Research Practice for Reimbursement Decisions Working Group and Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Director, Economic Evaluations Unit, Center for Evidence-Based Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Speakers:
Jennifer Stephens PharmD, Co-Chair HTA and Good Research Practice for Reimbursement Decisions Working Group and Clinical Director, PharMerit International, Bethesda, MD, USA
Karl Matuszewski, MS, PharmD, HTA of Emerging New Technologies Working Group and Senior Director, Clinical Knowledge Service Clinical Practice Advancement Center, University HealthSystem Consortium, Oak Brook, IL, USA
W. Neil Palmer, Global HTA Used in Health Care Reimbursement Working Group and Vice President, Pricing & Reimbursement, RTI Health Solutions, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Annie Chicoye PhD, Global HTA Used in Health Care Reimbursement Working Group and Senior Principal, Aremis Consultants, Neuilly sur Seine, France

ISPOR 13th Annual International Meeting Presentation
Navigating the Health Technology Assessment Process Around the World

Introduction & Overview
Moderator: Karl Matuszewski, MS, PharmD, Senior Director, Clinical Knowledge Service Clinical Practice Advancement Center, University HealthSystem Consortium, Oak Brook, IL, USA

Health Care Systems: Similarities & Differences
Speaker: Kevin Mayo PhD, co-chair Global Health Technology Assessments Used In Health Care Reimbursement Working Group and Director Health Outcomes Research Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., Parsippany, NJ, USA
An overview of the ISPOR roadmap of health care systems and coverage and reimbursements around the world will be presented.

HTA: Methods and Applications Around the World
Speaker: Jalpa Doshi PhD, co-chair HTA & Good Research Practices For Reimbursement Decisions Working Group and Research Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
The preliminary results of a survey to asses current methods used globally in health technology assessment and health care reimbursement will be presented.

HTA: How New Technologies are Assessed Around the World
Speaker: Noreen Sullivan BS, co-chair Health Technology Assessment of Emerging New Technologies and President, Aequitas, San Diego, CA USA
The preliminary results of interviews with health technology assessment group to determine how new technologies are assessed to inform health care policy decisions will be presented.

ISPOR 12th Annual International Meeting Presentation
Health Technology Assessment: A Tool for Translating Evidence to Health Policy