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In our opinion there are many ambiguities when using the term “evaluation” or “assessment in different perspectives. Many projects of informatics in medicine or health care are on the supply or management side, while TA projects are mainly public needs oriented or on the users side. On the one side, the evaluation is predominantly thought in terms of technological feasibility or cost-benefit analysis. On the other, the assessment is done from the social and societal point of view. That definition of TA is relatively new, as until the end of the seventies, evaluation of technologies, when it took place, was conducted through impacts studies. The emergence of Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA), wherein the influence of the actors and the social processes on technology itself is recognised, resulted from the questions about the “scientist” model of TA and the necessity to unlock conflictual situations. Technologies are not considered as given and rigid objects any more: they become, as society was, subject to mutations.
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