9th HTAi Annual meeting - “HTA in Integrated Care for a Patient Centered System”. Bilbao (Spain), 25-27 June 2012. The new HTAi vortal: from demonstrator to working prototype. Chalon PX, Droste S, Ormstad SS. Background: The HTAi vortal was established in 2005 by the HTAi Interest Sub-Group on Information Resources (IRG). This Web directory lists selected online resources aimed at supporting the HTA doers’ day-to-day work. In 2010, a survey was conducted to evaluate the use and satisfaction of the clients and to prepare an evolution of the vortal. objectives: To present the design process and resulting Website of the new HTAi vortal. Methods: Structure and content of the current vortal were analysed and re-organised taking into account the results and proposals of the clients’ survey. A Website (demonstrator) was build and fitted with a minimal set of records for evaluation purpose. Results: The demonstrator is a dedicated Website branded with the HTAi logo and color scheme. It is structured in four main sections: 1) Directory of HTA agencies organised by geographical areas, whith links to general Websites, but also to specific sections (projects, publications...); 2) Repertory of useful web resources on HTA (web pages, articles...) organised by categories; 3) The Information Retrieval reference tool (current IRG project); 4) Repertory of resources for career development. The demonstrator also includes a bibliography module to view and export selected references (standard formats), and offers links to PubMed and Google scholar, if possible. A subgroup of IRG members audited the demonstrator and endorsed the new design, structure, additional functionalities and scheduled content. The demonstrator was thus transformed into a prototype, filled with all existing and some new information. More information resources will be added step-by-step. Conclusions: The IT infrastructure being in place, setting up the collaborative update process, evaluating the tool and additional functionalities (2.0 interactivity) will be done in 2012. Implications for professionals: HTA doers will benefit of a better structured online resource that provides up-to-date and validated information relevant to their day-to-day work.

1. The new HTAi vortal
From demonstrator to working prototype
25/06/2012 Patrice Chalon, Sigrid Droste, Sari Susanna Ormstad

2. The HTAi vortal, a product of the IRG group since 2005
BACKGROUND
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3. The HTAi vortal
 Section of
HTAi website
 Repertory
 > 410 links
 12 main categories
 Search engine
Elaine Alligood Megan Bresnahan
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4. 2010 – the transition
Collaborate, do not duplicate
Contact vortal editor and IRG chair
New elected vortal editors
• Patrice Chalon, KCE
• Sigrid Droste, IQWIG
Survey (2010-2011) on usage and expectations
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5. New vortal - vision
Independent Website Editorial group
 Quicker access  Maintain a section /
 More control on layout sub-section
 More functionalities  Update working
 Access management procedures
 ....  Propose enhancements
to the vortal
 ....
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6. New vortal - objective
Support HTAi Groups
 IRG IR Reference Tool (IR Tool)
 HTAi Early Career Network
 Policy Forum
…
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7. METHODS
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8. Milestones
 Create demonstrator
 Evaluate vision, structure, functionalities
 Validate demonstrator
 Transform into a prototype
 Transfer and update content
 Set up editorial group
 Update the working procedure
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9. Technical option
 Drupal 6 CMS  No licence cost
 Modules CCK + Views  Large community
 Module bibliography  Several companies
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10. Creating references for dummies
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11. The new vortal - demonstrator
RESULTS
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12. New lay out
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13. 12 categories => 4 Sections
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14. HTA Agencies and networks
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15. Example of agency
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16. Selected resources
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17. Example of resource
Link(s) to full text
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18. Example of resource (cont.)
Export reference
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19. IR Ref tool
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20. Career development
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21. Example of training description
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22. Career development (cont.)
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23. Career development (cont.)
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24. Career development (cont.)
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25. Social functionalities
 Share this!
 Rate (?)
 Comment (?)
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26. New vortal – current status
 Create demonstrator
 Evaluate vision, structure, functionalities
 Validate demonstrator
 Transform into a prototype
 Transfer and update content
 Set up editorial group
 Update the working procedure
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27. Thank you!
Chalon, Patrice X.
KCE - Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre,
Belgium This activity is part of the EUnetHTA Joint Action
on HTA (2010-2012) which has received funding
from the European Union, in the framework of
the Health Programme.
Droste, Sigrid
IQWIG - Institute for Quality and Efficiency in
Health Care, Germany
Ormstad, Sari Susanna
NOKC – Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the
Health Services, Norway
HTTP://WWW.HTAI.ORG/VORTAL
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