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HORIZON SCANNING [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations
  • Risks and Threats (Security)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
CONT

Horizon scanning is a systematic process that serves as an early alert system to inform decision makers about possible future opportunities and threats. Health care horizon scanning identifies technologies, innovations, and trends with the potential to cause future shifts or disruptions—positive or negative—in areas such as access to care, care delivery processes, care setting, costs of care, current treatment models or paradigms, health disparities, health care infrastructure, public health, and patient health outcomes.

Key term(s)
  • healthcare horizon scanning

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion
  • Risques et menaces (Sécurité)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Système qui est mis en place par une organisation appartenant au domaine de la santé pour repérer des évènements et recueillir des données, tels que les nouvelles formes de risques sanitaires, les innovations en matière de prévention et de thérapies ou l'arrivée de nouvelles technologies, afin d'anticiper les évolutions sanitaires et d'apporter à cette organisation une aide à la décision.

OBS

prospective sanitaire; surveillance prospective sanitaire : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 19 juin 2024.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations Research and Management
DEF

A systematic method for gathering new insights on issues which may impact the future.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et gestion opérationnelles
DEF

Méthode systématique permettant de recueillir de nouveaux éléments de réflexion sur des enjeux qui pourraient avoir une incidence sur l'avenir.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Information
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

The systematic identification of emerging technologies that could have significant effects on health care, and which might be considered for health technology assessment.

OBS

horizon scanning: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Information scientifique
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Repérage systématique des technologies émergentes qui pourraient avoir des effets importants sur les soins de santé et pourraient éventuellement faire l’objet d’une évaluation.

OBS

vigie technologique; veille technologique : termes et définition normalisés par l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

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