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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.

The internet teems with sites that promise to help people improve their health, but which really work?

In the thick of the row over the repeal of Obamacare and what is to follow, the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has set out its prospectus for reform of the US healthcare system

For 25 years, the Central European University has promoted academic excellence in the social sciences in Central and Eastern Europe