ESIF
Sub Innovating for Health
In the EU, there is a growing consensus across Europe about the need for urgent reconfiguration of health care. Patient-oriented health care Clinic-industry cooperation Critically, the acute hospital model is costly and economically unsustainable in its present form. Evidence suggests that technology growth is contributing significantly to polarisation of services. It will transform and accelerate […]
October 2017
Innovating for Health
In the EU, there is a growing consensus across Europe about the need for urgent reconfiguration of health care. Patient-oriented health care Clinic-industry cooperation Critically, the acute hospital model is costly and economically unsustainable in its present form. Evidence suggests that technology growth is contributing significantly to polarisation of services. It will transform and accelerate […]
September 2017
ESIF and health care investment
European Structural and Investment Funds in the health sector European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF, earlier called SF, Structural Funds) used in the health sector mostly financed direct health investments in the 2000-2006 and 2007-2013 SF periods. During this time the predominant SF investments focused mainly on capital expenditure for hospital and health facility renewal […]
18 July 2017
Areas of expertise
It is shared and common prejudice that the costs for health care are rocketing and approaching the limits of affordability. This is not supported by evidence on expenditure over a 10 year period of economic change, intense health sector reform or consumer preferences and demand. A challenge shared by all European regional health systems in […]
15 July 2017