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A literature review indicates remote patient monitoring via biosensors is yet to demonstrate a positive impact on health

Despite the hype, there are few examples of the successful application of AI in health services. A different approach to adoption is needed, with access to data for companies and a framework to ensure proper testing and monitoring of AI systems

As procurement comes under the microscope at this week’s MedTech Forum in Brussels, Science|Business Healthy Measures looks at how the health service in Wales is planning to link what it pays for implantable lenses to good outcomes for cataract patients

Web-based clinic in the Netherlands improves outcomes while saving time and money. Doctors and patients have teamed up to build a teen-friendly app and, as the system is adopted more widely, healthcare providers will be paid for online care

Programme designed to improve healthcare by paying more to doctors who perform better on measures of care quality did not show any benefits

Industry says failure to consider new ways of assessing the value of drugs, including outcomes-based approaches and the use of real world evidence, represents a missed opportunity to promote sustainability of Europe’s healthcare systems 

Web-based platform will track provision of services and national policies as the number of people living with dementia is set to spiral

A Science|Business roundtable in Tallinn, as part of Estonia’s EU Council Presidency, offers some suggestions about how to get the best healthcare outcomes for citizens 

More prevention, improved primary care and an integrated, patient-centred approach is the route to making health systems resilient. Underpinning all this will be better data, says report on State of Health in the EU

Phase II trial will analyse breath biomarkers to improve understanding of treatment effects, advancing the precision medicine agenda

The genomics revolution has brought personalised medicine to cancer and rare diseases, but cardiovascular care is stuck in the past. An EU-funded initiative aims to change that

The Paediatric Regulation has “basically forced” companies to tailor drugs for use by children, but more work is needed to plug gaps in the area of childhood rare diseases

The WannaCry hack was relatively unsophisticated and could have been prevented with basic IT security best practice. There are greater cyber threats out there and the NHS must ensure it is better protected

Unlike hip replacements or cataract surgery, treating mental health conditions can be open-ended - and assessing outcomes subjective. But now there is a push to develop standards and enable mental health to join the value-based healthcare revolution   

More than a year after the public consultation closed, EMA and the Commission have announced moves that aim to clear the regulatory logjam holding back commercialisation of therapies based on tissues, cells and genes

The apps will improve self-care, adherence to therapy and long-term outcomes in this common, chronic condition, its developers say. The app for healthcare professionals will be one of the first such m-health apps to be CE-approved

The company aims to develop a new class of therapeutics for respiratory viral infections