1 Islamic Bioethics as an Extended New Element in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Framework Hafizah Besar Sa’aid (Corresponding Author) Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (Perak), 32610 Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia Tel: +605374000 ext 3507, Email: fizah598@perak.uitm.edu.my Siti Asiah Md. Shahid, Dr. Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (Perak), 32610 Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia Tel: +605374000 ext 2214, Email: sitia348@perak.uitm.edu.my Ahmad Badri Zakaria MUFI Research Centre, PKNS Bizpoint, No. 67B, Jalan Plumbum P7/P, Section 7, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: +60148256777, Email: badriz68@yahoo.com Abstract Health technology assessment (HTA) studies the consequences of introducing health technologies within the health system. Although health technologies have considerably improved human health and quality of life, their introduction has raised issues that challenge medical ethics and integrity. HTA despite being recognised as a tool for dealing with these issues, lacks the Islamic dimension to deal with issues related to those inventions that involve biomedical concerns such as reproductive and genetic engineering. These ethical issues are particularly relevant to the Muslim community. Apart from introducing the Islamic perspective to be considered in HTA, this article will also justify the importance of this Islamic ethical dimension in assessing health technologies. Islamic bioethics forms the basis for this new added property. This article will present a revised HTA framework with the newly added Islamic bioethics element as a conclusion. Keywords: Health Technology, Health Technology Assessment, Policy Making, Ethics, Islamic Bioethics. Introduction In recent years, new technologies have emerged more rapidly than before. This phenomenon is also happening in the health care industry. It is undeniable that the state-of-the-art technologies has brought many benefits and improved our quality of life. For example, new surgery procedures such as laparoscopy and laser treatments have reduced many major surgical procedures into minor surgical procedures. However, these new technologies have also brought many adverse implications such as the acceleration of health care cost, harmful and unproven technologies, and controversial ethical issues (Stevens, Milne, & Burls, 2003). To tackle these issues, health technology assessment (HTA) has been introduced and it has increasingly become an important tool for decision makers and policy makers to improve their decision-making process for introducing new health technologies (Garrido, Busse, & World Health