ISPOR Russia St. Petersburg Chapter [http://www.ispor.org/regional_chapters/Russia-StPetersburg/index.asp] organized and developed a very successful meeting on March 14, 2013 in St. Petersburg, about the prospects of the creation of the Regional Agency of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in the city of St. Petersburg.
All the speakers highlighted the imperative need and the objective reasons for the need of HTA in St. Petersburg in order to provide efficient evidence-based information about the effectiveness of health technologies, managers and decision-makers in the health system. As there are no such agencies created in Russia yet, though many have been working towards such a projec...