Standard Treatment Workflow for certain clinical conditions will be developed by DHR and ICMR, which could be implemented by Government of India at various levels of health care starting from primary to tertiary level care and also to be followed by private healthcare providers. Effective implementation of Standard Treatment Workflows would be crucial to ensure quality health care in India.
Department of Health Research has set up HTAIn for evaluation of appropriateness and cost effectiveness of the available and new Health technologies in India as part of the research governance mandate of the Department of Health Research. In order to establish an authority, systems for extracting available evidence, gather primary data/information through model projects for improving the health research governance in India and to examine the numerous and heterogeneous health technology providers, payers and adopters, HTAIn is constituted in the Department of Health Research. The HTAIn would be empowered to make recommendations to the Government of India after suitable health technology assessments through evaluation on the appropriateness and cost effectiveness of medical technologies, interventions and procedures for introduction /procurement in India.