Today, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at the same time improve health outcomes. Consideration of ways to enhance trade in healthcare goods and services is important for governments as they...

With the passage of Act 48 in May 2011, Vermont has become the first U.S. state to enact a law for a universal, publicly financed health care system. The state is on course for implementing a single payer system by 2017. This first breakthrough in the decades-long struggle for universal health...

This study for the European Parliament Policy Department examines the regulation for a European Health Data Space (EHDS), proposed by the European Commission in May 2022. The EHDS introduces mandatory rules for electronic health record to facilitate user access and portability of personal health...