About the evaluations
The Danish Health Technology Council is expected to conduct 15-25 evaluations annually.
The five Danish regions, hospital managements, and companies can submit proposals for evaluations to the Danish Health Technology Council. Companies, Regional and hospital managements must account for costs associated with the proposed health technology.
The subject field of the Danish Health Technology Council is broad and includes medical devices, but also treatments, diagnostic devices, rehabilitation, prevention, and organizational initiatives in relation to healthcare services. The Danish Health Technology Council does not make recommendations concerning medicines and other products, the primary effect of which is exerted through a pharmacological, immunological, or metabolic action.
The Danish Health Technology Council can evaluate health technologies for use in hospitals, general practice, and municipalities, if the technology interacts with hospital care. The aim is to always evaluate health technologies based on their assessed added value, and technologies will be compared with the best existing, already implemented alternative in Danish practice. In cases in which there is no actual alternative, the comparator will for example be no active treatment or, as proxy for this, placebo and/or sham. The assessment of the value of a technology includes:
- Clinical effectiveness and safety
- Patient perspective
- Organisational implications
- Health economics
The Danish Health Technology Council can evaluate both new health technologies and health technologies already widely used in the healthcare system. However, a certain level of documentation for outcomes and costs is required for the Council to initiate an evaluation.
The process for the applicant for the evaluations is described in the process guide from the Danish Health Technology Council. You can also learn more about the evaluations in the Methodological guidelines from the Danish Health Technology Council, which applicants are recommended to read.
