The Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP) is a private, non-profit organization that provides a neutral forum in which patients, clinicians, payers, manufacturers and researchers can work together to design and implement prospective, real world studies to inform health care decisions.  The primary goal of CMTP is to improve the process for generating reliable and credible information about the real world risks, benefits and costs of promising new medical technologies.

The specific objectives of the CMTP are to:

• Fully incorporate the perspectives of health care decision makers in research priorities and the study design.
• Ensure the rapid development and adoption of valuable technologies, and the efficient and appropriate use of these technologies.
• Limit the adoption and use of technologies of limited or uncertain benefit.
• Maintain incentives for innovators and investors to develop new high value technologies
• Develop a collaborative model of health care research for other organizations interested in expanding the supply of relevant and reliable evidence for decision makers.

The California HealthCare Foundation and the Blue Shield of California Foundation have provided initial funding for CMTP.  It is housed at the Health Technology Center in San Francisco, CA.