{"id":987524948,"date":"2023-03-02T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=news&#038;p=987524948"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:08:04","slug":"integrated-healthcare-technology-package-ihtp","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/integrated-healthcare-technology-package-ihtp\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Healthcare Technology Package (iHTP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Short description<\/strong><br \/>\niHTP is a resource planning and costing tool that provides guidance on the optimal mix of resource inputs (human resources, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and facilities) required for any particular health intervention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of iHTP is to help<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>planning for the optimal resource mix (human resources, devices, drug, facilities) for a defined set of health interventions;<\/li>\n<li>qualifying, quantifying and costing resource requirements; defining the human resources skills sets;<\/li>\n<li>assessing resource availability and constraints, and resource GAPs analysis;<\/li>\n<li>resource sharing between vertical programs;<\/li>\n<li>modelling of resource requirements and associated costs for scaling up health coverage or health services;<\/li>\n<li>changing\/improving clinical practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Methodology and type of data required<\/strong><br \/>\nThis tool has four main components. The first incorporates the economic analysis of healthcare technology. Basic economic information such as medical equipment fixed and recurrent costs, human resources costs, drug cost and facility costs are stored in the generic iHTP template database and are accessed by the simulation package. Here, the stored costs are applied to the simulation tools and costing analysis becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Users\/Target audience<\/strong><br \/>\nNational Planners, decision\/makers, managers, clinicians at any level; development, technical assistance and donor agencies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organization<\/strong><br \/>\nWorld Health Organization (WHO); Medical Research Council (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br \/>\nRoger Schmitt &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:schmittr@who.int\">schmittr@who.int<\/a>, Ole Doetinchem &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:doetinchemo@who.int\">doetinchemo@who.int<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/pmnch\/knowledge\/publications\/costing_tools\/en\/index9.html\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.who.int\/pmnch\/knowledge\/publications\/costing_tools\/en\/index9.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihtp.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ihtp.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\ncosting tool, planning tool<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong><br \/>\nThis tool is in process of being integrated in the OneHealth tool and no further updates will be provided.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short description iHTP is a resource planning and costing tool that provides guidance on the optimal mix of resource inputs (human resources, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and facilities) required for any particular health intervention. Purpose The purpose of iHTP is to help planning for the optimal resource mix (human resources, devices, drug, facilities) for a defined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}