A Model for Determining the Number of Health Technologies in the Health Systems: An Approach Combining Multiple Attributes Decision Making and Goal Programming

In recent years, health technology policymaking science has gone beyond just a health technology assessment or systematic review or economic evaluation study and the science of operational research in decision making, i.e. multiattributes and multiobjective decisionmaking has been included. Hence, currently, health technology policymaking follows a sevenstep process. After a technology undergoes these steps and is proven that it is useful for the health system, it must be determined how many of it is needed in the health system. Determining the required number of health technologies is a challenge that remains to be considered. Therefore, this study was designed to overcome this problem. The authors intend to introduce a multiobjective decisionmaking methodology considering the limited budget, to determine the number of technologies required to complete for the health technology policymaking cycle.