Healthcare Innovation

Desarrollar sistemas sanitarios pensados para las personas, no para las enfermedades

Building health systems designed for people, not diseases

BUILD promotes person-centred, integrated care across Europe with input from older adults requiring care, caregivers and other stakeholders How do we prevent inequalities in long-term care, especially given Europe’s ageing population? Launched in 2024, the EU-funded BUILD project set out to map care systems across Europe and study how social inequalities affect access and outcomes.…
Una contratación pública más inteligente para mejorar la asistencia sanitaria en Europa

Smarter procurement for better European healthcare

By building a network of procurement of innovation stakeholders, the EU-funded Procure4Health project is helping European healthcare systems move from reactive buying to a more demand-driven approach Across Europe, healthcare faces the challenge of doing more with limited resources. “Procurement usually focuses on buying finished products,” says project coordinator Carlos Larrañeta Gómez-Caminero, from the Andalucian…
Avances hacia las inyecciones sin agujas

Developments towards needle-free injections

An innovative team improved the control of fluid jets to streamline the development of needle-free injections Roughly 44 million needles are used each day. Needles are fundamental for vaccination, blood sampling and drug delivery. And they have inked millions of tattoos. Yet they must be used correctly, instil fear among many people and create a…
Rolf-Detlef Treede explica el papel del dolor y la nocicepción en la salud humana

Could we live without pain?

Pain is unpleasant, and can be debilitating for some. The expert Rolf-Detlef Treede tackles the thorny reality of a pain-free life. “There are people that live without pain,” says Treede, a neurophysiologist at the University of Heidelberg. “They have been known for centuries to exist.” Insensitivity to pain, known as analgesia, can be caused by…
AI transforming healthcare: medical experts discuss benefits, bias, and innovation in clinical settings and research labs

Machine healing

Artificial intelligence is up to the challenge of reducing human suffering, experts say. Are we? When Adam Rodman was a second-year medical student in the 2000s, he visited the library for a patient whose illness had left doctors stumped. Rodman searched the catalog, copied research papers, and shared them with the team. “It made a…

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