title: It's time to rethink health care technology assessment.
abstract: Health care technology assessment is broadly and ambiguously interpreted, diluting its role. It is time to recast the field. We must elucidate it in the contemporary context of health inquiry, explicitly relating it to such pursuits as quality assurance, health services research, effectiveness research, medical informatics, and technological innovation.
authors.affiliation: Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D016239:MEDLINE; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States