From the HTAi 2024 Annual Meeting in Seville, Spain: Plenary Three - Breaking Boundaries: Unleashing Innovation In Health

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Innovation in healthcare is intrinsically tied to the generation value, emphasizing its multifaceted nature. Beyond the development of novel treatments or technologies, healthcare innovation is about enhancing patient outcomes, increasing efficiency, and reducing costs. The integration of technology, data, and patient-centered health services is at the forefront of driving innovation and value in healthcare. However, realizing the full potential of innovation presents formidable challenges.

New technologies introduce complexities to health systems, impacting stakeholders such as HTA practitioners and decision-makers tasked with equitable patient care. The lexicon of healthcare innovation brims with terms like digital technologies, artificial intelligence, chatbots, blockchain, data interoperability, omics, photonics, nanotechnology, and additive manufacturing to name a few. Remarkably, these often evoke images of individual innovators or small, nimble teams. This prompts questions about their motivation and direction.

- Are healthcare systems, including patients, professionals, managers, funders, and policymakers, prepared to fully embrace innovations?
- Are traditional methods of assessing value still well-suited to dealing with emerging technologies, or should we devise new ones for the myriad challenges ahead?
- Does the analysis of innovation value adequately consider core ethical and societal values?
- Is the traditional RCTs paradigm adequately suited for evaluating the specificities of emerging Medtech innovations?

These compelling inquiries will be explored in an innovative plenary session merging artificial intelligence and human expertise.

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