Scanning the Horizon
Informing Decision Makers About Emerging Medical Technologies

Inukshuk at Clyde River, Nunavut.
Photo composition by Paul Ting and Vera Saltzman.
In April 2006, the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) was renamed the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH).
At the same time, all of our publications received a new “look,” including this newsletter. However, the goal of the Health Technology Update remains the same: to provide brief, informative articles about new and emerging health technologies.
This issue brings you information about diagnostic, biologic, surgical, and radiology-based health technologies that have been newly introduced or that are expected to emerge shortly in Canada. We hope that you will find the Health Technology Update informative and useful.