Spain

Barcelona, Spain

The Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research (CAHTA) was created in 1994. CAHTA is a non-profit public agency affiliated to the Catalan Health Service. The mission of the CAHTA is currently to promote the production and utilisation of scientific knowledge to improve the prevention of diseases, and to improve the health and quality of life of the Catalan population. This mission involves two objectives:

A. To encourage the introduction, adoption, diffusion and utilisation of health technologies according to proven scientific criteria of efficacy, safety, effectiveness and efficiency, while promoting the needs assessment and equity analysis in the delivery and financing of health care services.

B. To promote research oriented to the health and health care services needs of the population, and also to the knowledge needs of the health care system itself.

CAHTA’s activities take place, both by own initiative or upon external request, within the Catalan Department of Health, the Catalan Health Service, public and private health centres and other health administrations and organizations, among other sectors, all of them related to HT assessment and research. The development of these working lines is focused on the realisation of different products, services and other activities, and on the dissemination, by different methods, of the results of CAHTA’s works.

Homepage

www.aatrm.net

Project information
in English: http://www.aatrm.net/html/en/dir404/doc7887.html
in Spanish: http://www.aatrm.net/html/es/dir380/doc7822.html
in Catalan: http://www.aatrm.net/html/ca/dir214/doc6477.html

Contact

Dr. Luis Rajmil
Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research
Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili
Esteve Terradas, 30
Edifici Mestral, 1a planta
08023-Barcelona
Spain

Tel.: +34-93-2594223
Fax: +34-93-2594201
Mail: lrajmil@aatrm.catsalut.net

Scientific Staff

Dr. Silvina Berra
Tel.: +34-93-2594222
Fax: +34-93-2594201
Mail: sberra@aatrm.catsalut.net

Cristian  Tebé
Tel.: +34-93-2594210
Fax: +34-93-2594201
Mail: ctebe@aatrm.catsalut.net

Dr. Vicky Serra
Tel.: +34-93-2594220
Fax: +34-93-2594201
Mail: vserra@aatrm.catsalut.net