FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (HTA)
What is MaHTAS?
MaHTAS, stand for Malaysian Health Technology Assessment, is a section under Medical Development Division Ministry of Health Malaysia. MaHTAS is tasked to provide evidence-based input on health health technology and clinical practice. We conduct horizon scanning, health technology assessment (HTA), develop and implement Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG).
What is Health Technology?
What is Health Technology Assessment (HTA)?
What is the purpose of HTA?
What type of HTA reports being produced by MaHTAS?
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES (CPG)
What is CPG?
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are “statements that include recommendations intended to optimise patient care that is informed by a systematic review of evidence and, an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options”. A CPG is not intended to be prescriptive, menu-driven or cookbook where the healthcare provider has no discretion in managing his/her patient or a medical textbook that provides in-depth background clinical knowledge of a medical condition. It does not replace the knowledge and skills of the healthcare providers but aids their case management.
What is the purpose of CPG?
What are the CPG implementation strategies?
Who can propose a topic for CPG development?
How can one participate in a CPG development?
Horizon Scanning
What is Horizon Scanning?
Horizon Scanning is an activity that identifies innovations in the field of health technology likely to have a significant impact; and disseminates information relevant to the needs of the customer which is timely, so as to enable appropriate decision making (such as resource allocation), facilitate appropriate adoption, and identify further research requirements.
What is the purpose of Horizon Scanning?
What type of HS reports being used by MaHTAS?
What types of health technologies that can be assessed through horizon scanning?
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Do we need to have approval letter from MaHTAS for us to market our product(s)?
MaHTAS conduct evidence-based health technology assessments and provide report or input to the policy/decision makers. We do not provide any approval letter for health technologies that have been assessed.
Can we send samples of our product(s) for MaHTAS to try and do assessment on them?
What should we provide in order to help MaHTAS to verify/approve our product(s)?
How could we get our product(s) certified by Ministry of Health?