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Technical progress means self-driving cars are zooming ahead, giving Europe’s city planners and lawmakers a massive headache

EU Parliament confirms an overall €200M boost, half of the €400M requested

Patients with hardened arteries who had good communication with their healthcare providers were less likely to use the emergency room and more likely to comply with their treatment plans

Integrated care is a fundamental component of much-needed health and social care system reforms

Peer-to-peer patient support groups have been shown to improve patient health literacy and increase patient empowerment in health decision-making

In March the EU health commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis formally launched the European Reference Networks

An article in the latest edition of WHO Europe’s Eurohealth assess the benefits of big data in healthcare and how policy changes in Europe might affect patients, policy-makers, providers and scientists.

In the face of chronic disease, an ageing population and a shortage of trained staff, Europe urgently needs to devise and implement new delivery models that will make its healthcare systems sustainable in the future.

ICHOM standards will soon cover half the global disease burden. Christina Åkerman, head of the consortium tells Science|Business their application will highlight inequalities, give greater priority to quality of life and help healthcare systems extract more value from restricted budgets

Pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of collecting and utilising patient-reported data, and showed there are benefits of doing so.