“Healthcare innovations such as eHealth and telemedicine offer new prospects for cost savings and improved quality of care, but expensive new technologies are also driving medical inflation and the benefits may not always be distributed equally.
Innovation is now at the heart of EU policymaking and the health sector is no exception. As part of a drive to create growth and jobs, it is one of the industries identified as capable of delivering the kind of knowledge-based economy described in the EU 2020 strategy.”
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EurActiv, 26 February 2010
