IS THE PLANNED AND ONGOING PROJECT (POP) DATABASE A SUITABLE TOOL TO REDUCE DUPLICATION IN THE PROCESS OF ASSESSING NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION? PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUNETHTA JOINT ACTION PROJECT FRAMEWORK (2010–2012)

Objectives: The European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) Joint Action Project Framework, 2010–12, Work Package 7B (WP 7B), was aimed at facilitating collaboration between HTA agencies to avoid duplication of assessment efforts. A major task of WP 7B was to collect information on planned and ongoing (POP) projects by EUnetHTA agencies and to incorporate this information in a POP Database. We analyzed whether the Database...