Reiner Banken

Montreal, Canada Area Canada

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) & Innovation, Strategies and Capacity Building in HTA

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

I am passionate about supporting the creation of global public goods for patients and for health systems. I am working with industry, NGO's and public organisations on Accelerating Innovation through Evaluation. Knowledge generation processes with the involvement of public institutions, industry and patients are necessary to demonstrate under real world conditions the added value of introducing promising innovations despite uncertainties. The rules of this type of knowledge generation processes have to be agile, iterative, collaborative, akin to living labs, and with highest levels of transparency and accountability of the participating stakeholders. Open and Linked Data are one of the e...