Department for Healthcare Technologies Assessment and Strategic Development

The Department for Healthcare Technologies Assessment and Strategic Development as a structural unit of the RSE “Medical Center Hospital of the President’s affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan” on REU has been operating since April 2015.

MAIN GOAL

assistance in the transfer and implementation of new methods and technologies (innovations) into practical healthcare of the republic based on assessment of safety and clinical and economic effectiveness (hospital assessment of healthcare technologies)

MAIN OBJECTIVES

methodological support for the transfer and implementation of healthcare technologies into the practice of the Hospital, taking into account the achievements of modern medical science and technology;
conducting assessment and selection of health care technologies based on the principles of evidence-based medicine, taking into account clinical effectiveness, safety and economic feasibility for the formation and submission of applications for inclusion in the lists of technologies reimbursed through the guaranteed volume of medical care and in the compulsory medical insurance system (emergency medical care, high-tech medical care, tarifficator of medical services, unique technologies );
assessing the feasibility of investing in the introduction of new technologies and innovative projects, as well as retrofitting and modernizing technologies used in the practice of the Hospital (hospital assessment of health care technologies);
ensuring interaction with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan and republican health care organizations in the field of improving innovation activities and transfer of new technologies into practical health care of the republic;
development of partnerships in the field of innovation and assessment of health care technologies with foreign and national professional associations and organizations;
formation and submission of applications for admission to high-tech medical care (HTMC) within the framework of the state order;
organizing and ensuring the development and approval of the Hospital Development Strategy and monitoring the implementation of the Strategy implementation plan.

HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES ASSESSMENT (HTA)

The Department for Healthcare Technologies Assessment and Strategic Development is the first example in Kazakhstan of the implementing and using a system for assessing medical technologies (health technologies) at the level of an individual healthcare organization (hospital HTA).

Employees of the Department regularly publish the results of their own experience in implementing and using the hospital HTA system to make science-based management decisions:

THE DEPARTMENT SUPPORTS COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FIELD OF HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES ASSESSMENT

International Society for Healthcare Technologies Assessment international (HTAi, https://htai.org/), where the MC Hospital of the PAA of the RK is a member of the working group on hospital HTA;
Association of Healthcare Technologies Assessment Specialists (Russian Federation), http://htaa.ru/

AS PART OF ITS ACTIVITIES, THE DEPARTMENT IS PLEASED TO COOPERATE WITH HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, MANUFACTURING COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTORS IN THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS:

Transfer and implementation of new technologies into practical healthcare of the republic;
Testing of new technologies on the basis of the MC Hospital of the PAA of the RK;
Organization and conduct of clinical trials;
Conducting clinical and economic (including pharmacoeconomic) analysis of the feasibility for introducing various medical technologies into practice (medical equipment, devices and medical products, medicines and biologically active compounds, clinical and diagnostic procedures, IT technologies);
Conducting hospital healthcare technologies assessments.

STAFF:

1. Olzhas Turar – acting Head of the Department, Master of Public Health, has 5 years of professional experience in healthcare organizations. The author of over 10 scientific publications, he has experience in conducting clinical and economic analysis of the feasibility of introducing medical technologies into the healthcare system of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He is a member of the Medical Personnel Alliance of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. Tansholpan Aimanova – chief specialist of the Department, Bachelor of Public Health, Master of Biotechnology. She has over 5 years experience in the organization and management of healthcare, in monitoring the quality of medical services provided and in the field of assessing medical technologies and improving tariff setting for medical services. Also she has experience as in the formation and submission of applications for access to high-tech medical care (HTMC) within the framework of the state order as in organizing and ensuring the development and approval of the Hospital Development Strategy and monitoring the implementing the Strategy implementation plan. The author of over 5 scientific publications, she has experience of participation in a poster presentation at the Annual International Conference on Health Technology Assessment in the Asia-Pacific Region “11th HTAsiaLink Conference”. She took part in a project to develop new approaches to organizing and conducting clinical trials in the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with the National Scientific Center for Health Development named after Salidat Kairbekova of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

4. Gulzada Bariyeva – leading specialist of the Department, Master of Public Health (MPH), has more than 5 years of professional experience in healthcare organizations in the field of assessment of healthcare technologies, healthcare management, medical education and science. Author of over 10 scientific publications, including in international peer-reviewed journals. He is a graduate of the School of Analysts under the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

5. Makpal Alchimbayeva - leading specialist of the Department, Master of Law, PhD doctoral student of NAO AMU. Author of more than 20 scientific publications, including the educational and methodological manual “Collection of practical tasks and cases in the discipline “Medical Law” (co-authored). She takes an active part in international scientific and practical conferences and seminars. Area of scientific interests: problems of the legal status of medical and pharmaceutical workers in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Contact details:

Address: Astana city, Е-495 str., build. 2, block F, 3^rd floor, office 42

Tel.: +7-7172-70-79-58

E-mail: hbhtakz@gmail.com