Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is an innovative program that determines if health services used by state government are safe and effective.

Hayes provides unbiased health technology assessment and consulting services to assist with better health decision making when developing coverage policies or acquiring health technologies.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. The collections stand at 5 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old (pre-1914) and rare medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula.

Publications and consulting on patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, medical devices, healthcare technology, procurement, and health policy