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Commission says new guarantee scheme will unlock €220 million for 800 Finnish businesses

Research will support the modernisation and independence of Europe’s arms manufacturers, but the sensitive nature of the work means there will not be the usual oversight and scrutiny of the programme by experts or MEPs

Eighteen EIT-backed companies make magazine’s annual selection of top innovations

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.

Scientists at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and the Rush University Medical Center have highlighted potential barriers to the implementation of patient reported outcome measures for patients that suffer from severe forms of disability and injury.

Scientists from Stanford have published recent findings about the use of new types of wearable sensors that allow frequent and continuous measurements of body functions, including heart rate, skin temperature, blood oxygen levels, and physical activity.

December 15th saw the first publication of patient satisfaction rankings in France, with data for 983 hospitals now available online. The ratings are based on the opinions of 56,759 patients who spent more than 48 hours at the facilities.