Abstract - The adoption of Stroke Units in stroke care assistance has been proven to be the best currently available technology in terms of outcomes, including stroke patients' reduced death and disability incidence rates. The purpose of this study is to review the relevant literature, concerning both the impacts of innovative technology on healthcare and the most used model for the evaluation of health technology (HTA), in order to elaborate a new framework for the innovative technology performance assessment and evaluation. The framework aims at measuring several dimensions of impact of the...