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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.

The science of healthcare is underdeveloped. A first-in-Europe institute opening in Cambridge aims to change this, providing evidence of how to organise health to improve outcomes

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

Stockholm3 prostate cancer diagnostic receives funding from the EU’s EIT Health cluster

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

As the national assembly gathers to vote on higher education rules that could force the Central European University to close, CEU alumna Zsuzsanna Végh says the EU cannot allow a member state to undermine intellectual freedom and academic autonomy

Despite a massive show of solidarity, the parliament has approved new conditions for foreign universities operating in Hungary that are seen as directly targeting CEU

The new Stockholm3 test, which improves prostate cancer diagnosis, gets assistance from EIT Health for a faster introduction in Europe

As head of innovation at EIT Digital, Chahab Nastar gives entrepreneurs the guidance to scale-up that was missing when he was building his own company

If EU Commission gives the green light, the project, put on hold by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology last year, will start in January 2018

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