The European Healthcare Innovation Leadership Network is focused on advancing European healthcare innovation that addresses unmet needs and ensures patient access to valuable treatments in an era of severe budgetary pressures.
The network brings together public and private sector European healthcare leaders committed to improving patient well-being. Members include public and private sector leaders who represent regulators, health technology assessors (HTA), healthcare budget holders, patient representatives, civil society, and medicine developers. The network is supported by AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, and Johnson & Johnson.
Recently, the network began piloting a new way for diverse stakeholders to engage critical questions about medicines in development, enabling health systems to provide the right medicines to the right patients at the right time. As these pilots move forward, the network will continue to address critical emerging issues in healthcare.
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On November 28–29, 2011, European healthcare leaders convened for the 9th meeting of the European Healthcare Innovation Leadership Network in London. Against the backdrop of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, network members and guests discussed the future of healthcare delivery, the prospects for innovation, cost control, and health outcomes.
The activities of the Network led to the launch of a new pilot process for multi-country, multi-stakeholder consultations in drug development.
In 2009, Tapestry convened type-2 diabetes and breast cancer Working Groups of medical experts, regulators, payers, reimbursement authorities, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry to develop disease-specific value frameworks.
Healthcare leaders consider the impact of integrated approaches to the care of chronic conditions that condition reimbursement on achieving health outcomes.
Pilots of multi-country, multi-stakeholder consultation in drug development create a new model of engagement to address strategic questions.
Members and guests have discussed the implications of new Alzheimer’s diagnostics for patient outcomes and recommend increased collaboration in Alzheimer’s research and drug development.
Network members recognize that the expanding need for healthcare will be felt at the same time that resources to finance it will become more constrained. The result is increased urgency to develop and agree on more consistent approaches to demonstrate, assess, and capture value for money in medicines.
Rainer Hess
European Healthcare Innovation Leadership Network
Impartial Chairman, Federal Joint Committee, Germany