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A Georgia Tech researcher explores how mobile devices can be used to close the gap in quality of healthcare between rich and poor

Health-state utility is a health economics measurement that determines a patient’s health status and quality of life following a treatment.

Therapies that prime a patient’s own immune system to recognise and attack tumours are revolutionising cancer treatment. However, the high cost of novel immunotherapies raises concerns about access.

An analysis of the level of preparedness of each EU member state to implement electronic health records shows there is an emerging effort in most countries to develop new information technology tools for managing large datasets and using electronic health records to improve the quality and performance of Europe’s healthcare systems.

A three-year collaboration involving 25 EU countries and 126 partner organisations has culminated in the publication of the European Guide on Quality Improvement in Comprehensive Cancer Control.

European Commission awards €1M to new 10 minute test which identifies if a patient can be treated without antibiotics

For the first time in clinical practice, doctors have used a brain-computer interface to communicate with patients suffering from complete paralysis and get responses to simple “yes” or “no” questions, by detecting distinct patterns in patients’ brain activity.

Patient-reported outcomes have proved to be useful for better healthcare management and clinical performance.

A European Commission report by Gesundheit Österreich Forschungs- und Planungs GmbH and SOGETI evaluates the impact of patient safety and cost-effectiveness programmes in healthcare systems of EU member states.

Smartinhaler is a personal medical monitoring system developed by Adherium Ltd of New Zealand.

Health systems can gather all kinds of patient data, but are they analysing and acting on it? A Science|Business conference gathered views from experts

In January 2017, Erasmus MC began adapting its care pathways to match the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) standard set for all cleft palate patients , following a successful trial in 2016.

An online booking system has helped Macedonia abolish waiting lists. The European Consumer Health Index shows Serbia is set to do the same - and others may follow

Europe’s publicly-funded health systems have improved year on year for a decade, according to the European Consumer Health Index, published today. But there remain large variations and many opportunities to learn from the best performers

While other industries have reinvented themselves around the consumer, in healthcare a huge gap exists between patients’ expectations and service delivery that is stuck in the past. Our healthcare systems should organise around the needs of the service user

Up to 20 per cent of health spending is ineffective or harmful, according to the OECD. Cross-country comparisons of outcomes are needed to expose wasteful clinical care

Europe’s health technology assessment bodies want to know that products which show efficacy in clinical trials will work in their health systems. Companies are now required to collect real world evidence on patient outcomes says Mirella Marlow, Programme Director at NICE

The Irish government plans to apply the new indicators in all the medical centres in the country, to improve the collection and quality of health and social care data.

Researcher and physicians from several Canadian universities reported on the effectiveness of abbreviated forms of patient reported outcomes (PRO) measures to inform health professionals about patients with a comparatively severe prognosis of colorectal cancer.

Work is needed to reduce the barriers to electronic reporting of patients’ symptoms in between clinical visits, according to Ethan Basch, director of the UNC Lineberger Cancer Outcomes Research Programme, writing in the New England Medical Journal.