scholarly journals The past and future of constructive technology assessment

1997 ◽  
Vol 54 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Schot ◽  
Arie Rip
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constructive Technology Assessment

scholarly journals Constructive Technology Assessment: Systematic Review and Future Study Needs

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (55) ◽  
pp. e12459
Author(s):  
Óscar Iván Rodríguez-Cardoso ◽  
Vladimir Alfonso Ballesteros-Ballesteros ◽  
Manuel Francisco Romero-Ospina
Keyword(s):  
Future Study ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
European Model ◽  
Technological Assessment ◽  
Constructive Technology Assessment

Engineering, understood as the gathering of scientific and technological knowledge for innovation, creation, advancement and optimization of techniques, as well as a set of useful tools to meet social needs and solve technical problems of both individuals and the community, makes its main actors, engineers, key players in sustainable development and in the creation of alternatives that minimize the negative effects of technology on society. It is in this sense that technology assessment approaches should take importance among those who manage technology development and implementation policies. Generally, the undesirable effects of the intrusion of a new technology are acted upon when they already occur, and technology assessment is intended to anticipate the risk. This paper presents a bibliographic review of technology assessment, its approaches and future study needs. Based on an articulating axis that positions technological change and innovation as an imperative need for social development, an exhaustive review of related articles in specialized databases was carried out. The most important results of this work reveal that the field of technological assessment has been strongly inclined towards the health or sanitary sector; however, research is being developed in central engineering topics such as the development of nanotechnology, robotics, and the handling of big data, where the European model stands out as a reference for technological assessment processes due to its inclusive and democratic nature.

A History of ISTAHC: A Personal Perspective on Its First 10 Years

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. David Banta ◽  
Seymour Perry
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
International Society ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

AbstractThis reflection on the history of the International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care is an effort to describe the creation of the Society and its first 10 years of activity. Without analyzing the forces that spurred the growth of technology assessment internationally or linking events, policies, and changes in the various countries, this essay focuses on the persons and events that surrounded the birth and growth of the Society in the past decade.

Assessment and the Technologic Present

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Joel Reiser
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Will ◽  
And Control

Do we have the will, the power of innovation, to lift ourselves above our own creations and control them? This is the central question of modern medicine, a question which for some time has dominated current discourse in health care and which gave rise in the early 1970s to the field of technology assessment. The technologic armory that has been developed over the past one and a half centuries is vast, formidable, and expanding. Its presence must be reckoned with, and to do this we must begin by understanding our relationship to it.

Health technology assessment and its influence on health-care priority setting

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Oliver ◽  
Elias Mossialos ◽  
Ray Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Health Care Priority Setting ◽  
Perceived Relevance

In this article, we review the development of health technology assessment (HTA) in England and Wales, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden, and we summarize the reaction to these developments from a variety of different disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives (political science, sociology, economics, ethics, public health, general practice, clinical medicine, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry). We conclude that translating HTA into policy is a highly complex business and that, despite the growth of HTA over the past two decades, its influence on policy making, and its perceived relevance for people from a broad range of different perspectives, remains marginal.

Decision Analysis as a Synthetic Tool for Achieving Consensus in Technology Assessment

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Pauker
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Medical Application ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Consensus Development ◽  
Consensus Development Conference ◽  
The Past

Over the past decade the Office of Medical Application of Research (OMAR) of the National Institutes of Health has developed the consensus development conference (18) to assess technologies in cases where the scientific community has been unable, or unwilling, to reach a firm position as to efficacy but which require some better form of assessment than expert opinion (8). Another paper in this issue describes the principles that underlie such conferences (9).

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