Making health technology assessment accessible to every team.
Health technology assessment has traditionally been costly and technically demanding, which puts it out of reach for many of the teams and organizations that could benefit from it. We started EasyHTA to lower those barriers, so that rigorous, evidence-based evaluation is not reserved for those with the largest budgets or dedicated specialist teams.
Our application is built for purpose, letting you carry out robust, data-driven assessments of health technologies without a steep learning curve. Whether you work in a market access team, a consultancy, a public health agency, or a research institute, EasyHTA is designed around your needs.
Founding Partners
Eemil Karttunen
Founding Partner
MSc Health Economics & Management
Eemil is a health economist specializing in cost-effectiveness modeling and market access. With a strong background in consulting and industry, he has worked on localizing and presenting health economic models to help decision-makers adapt global tools to their specific healthcare settings across a range of different therapeutic areas.
Recognizing how costly and complex health technology assessment can be, Eemil co-founded EasyHTA to streamline economic evaluations and make reliable, user-friendly tools available to health economists and market access teams.
Zach Desson
Founding Partner
MSc Health Economics & Management
Zach brings a broad systems-level perspective to EasyHTA, with experience in health research, policy, public health initiatives, and digital health. As the founder of DESS Consulting, he has worked with organizations across the healthcare sector to improve evidence-based decision-making and implement innovative health solutions.
Understanding how healthcare decisions are shaped at many levels, Zach co-founded EasyHTA to close the gap between technical expertise and real-world impact, drawing on his experience in health policy and strategic implementation.
Our Team
Damien Gallagher
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
MSc DevOps | BSc Information Technology
Damien is a cloud and AI engineer specialising in enterprise cloud architecture, developer platforms, and generative AI adoption. With over 20 years of experience across Fortune 500 companies, he has led large-scale cloud migrations and pioneered the use of AI coding tools to transform how engineering teams work.
Holding 15 AWS certifications and a distinguished credential in Advanced AI from UCD Professional Academy, Damien has helped organisations modernise their technology estates, migrating 250+ enterprise applications to the cloud. As an AWS Community Builder, he is committed to raising the bar for cloud and AI engineering across the developer community.
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