The third meeting of the WHO technical advisory group on Health Technology took place in Cairo from 20 to 22, June 2010. The meeting:

identified the key components of an action plan for the implementation of national essential health technology programmes and measurement of the progress of the programme adoption;

identified resources currently available, including, but not limited to, tools developed by experts that might support effective implementation;

developed a prototype tool to assist in identifying gaps in needs; and

revised different reference documents resulting from the global initiative on health technology activities and baseline country survey on medical devices.

The meeting outcomes together with the results of the baseline country survey and the tools developed by previous expert sessions will be disseminated at the second global forum on medical devices.