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ensure accuracy. Setting Priorities for Health Technology
Assessment: A Model Process mission of directing its resources
for technology assessment toward medical conditions and
technologies that have the greatest impact on the well-being of
the public and on the public's expenditures for health care. By
adhering to this principle, the committee believes that OHTA can
identify and evaluate the medical conditions and technologies
whose assessment will offer maximum benefits to the nation's
citizens. Several specific benefits of an OHTA priority-setting
process include the potential to improve the health and well-
being of the public, reduce needless or inappropriate health
expenditures, reduce inequities and maldistribution of health
care, and inform ethical, legal, and social issues related to
candidate topics. The committee enunci