External publications

2019
Value-based Healthcare in Catalonia: Challenges and Opportunities to Contribute to the Future
The ageing of the population in Europe is a challenge for the healthcare systems of all EU countries and puts their sustainability at risk. The increase in complex, fragile and cognitively impaired ch...
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2019
Defining Value in “Value-based Healthcare”
Sound and timely scientific advice is an essential requirement for the Commission to pursue modern, responsive and sustainable health systems. To this end, the Commission has set up a multidisciplinar...
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2019
The Value of Diagnostic Information in Personalised Healthcare: A Comprehensive Concept to Facilitate Bringing This Technology into Healthcare Systems
It is recognized that patients can live healthier and longer lives when disease progression is prevented or delayed or when patients recover through timely diagnosis, followed by appropriate clinical...
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2019
Incorporating Value in Investment Decisions in Health across Europe
Health systems in Europe are experiencing adverse consequences of an ageing population. This has brought an epidemiological transition with growing burden of chronic illness and physical disability, w...
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2018
Value in Healthcare – Mobilizing cooperation for health system transformation
The World Economic Forum is pleased to share details of the progress being made on how stakeholders in the healthcare industry are mobilizing to transform health systems so that they deliver better va...
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2018
Accelerating the Pace of Health System Transformation
The World Economic Forum’s system initiative “Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare” aims to provide answers to the question: How can the world deliver affordable and quality healthcare fo...
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