Healthcare

Introducing technology into innovative, highly personalized patient care: that is the purpose of intensified cooperation of the University of Twente, the University Medical Center Utrecht and the University of Utrecht.

Paying hospitals for activity provides no incentive to improve. Using historical data, patients awaiting cardiac surgery can be profiled, with hospitals paid extra to bear the risk of complications, but receiving no further payment if a second operation is required

The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, was joined by Greg Clark MP and Professor Sir John Bell today (August 30th) at the Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) - co-located on the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birminghamcampus - to make two major national life sciences investment announcements as part of the launch of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy.

A study from Cleveland Clinic suggests long-term mortality trends may be better understood by focusing on life-years lost rather the solely looking at cause of death

A scheme launched in 2011 to help patients stick to their drug regimens has been so successful that in its first five years it saved the National Health Service in England £75.4 million, and will save £517.6m in the longer-term