A system that aims to identify, filter and prioritise new and emerging health technologies, or new uses of existing interventions; to assess or predict their impact on health, health services and/or society; and to disseminate information.
» Filter: a process to remove technologies that are not relevant to the early awareness and alert system from a list of technologies originating from the identification process.
» Prioritise: a process to determine the significance of, or order for dealing with, filtered technologies according to their relative importance to the aims of the early awareness and alert system.
Synonym: early warning system
Last update: 15 June 2023
Source: PPRI