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The Impact of EU Competition Law on National Healthcare Systems
Sauter, Wolf - 2013
Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are … concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope … for application of the competition rules to the healthcare sector is largely defined by the Member States themselves. This …
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Real convergence and the determinants of growth in EU candidate and potential candidate countries : a panel data approach
Borys, Magdalena Morgese; Polgár, Éva Katalin; Zlate, … - 2008
The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...
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The impact of decentralisation on the performance of health care systems : A non-linear relationship
Dougherty, Sean - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between the degree of administrative decentralisation across levels of government in health care decision-making and health care spending, life expectancy as well as hospital costs. This empirical analysis builds on previous analytical research carried out by...
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Decentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care
Beazley, Ivor - 2019
Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems are used in the health sector....
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Telemedicine and Primary Health : The Virtual Doctor Project Zambia
Mupela, Evans; Mustarde, Paul; Jones, Huw - 2014
This paper is a commentary on a project application of telemedicine to alleviate primary health care problems in Lundazi district in the Eastern province of Zambia. The project dubbed 'The Virtual Doctor Project' will use hard body vehicles fitted with satellite communication devices and modern...
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Harmonisation in Healthcare : The EU Patients’ Rights Directive
Sauter, Wolf - 2011
In the EU harmonisation of healthcare has long been elusive. Article 168 paragraph 7 TFEU even forms a sector-specific subsidiarity clause. Meanwhile the ECJ handed down a series of judgments concerning patients' rights to reimbursement for healthcare consumed in other Member States. An initial...
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Consumer Financial Protection in Health Care
Fuse Brown, Erin C. - 2017
There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from increasing cost shifting to patients underway in American health care and the inordinate complexity...
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Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare via FDA Hedges
Jørring, Adam - 2017
The high cost of capital for firms conducting medical research and development (R&D) has been partly attributed to the government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be compensated for it. We propose new and simple financial...
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Elderly Healthcare in the Face of Budget Constraint
Perlingeiro, Ricardo - 2017
A versão em português deste texto está disponível em: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2441607" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2441607 La versione italiana di questo documento è disponibile all'indirizzo: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2607031" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2607031La versión en español de este...
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Public Procurement of Healthcare in Europe : The Case of Medical Devices
Decarolis, Francesco - 2019
, competition, corruption and product innovation in light of both our data and the new Directive 2014/24/EU …
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