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High-Level Conference: Health-related needs as drivers for healthcare policy and innovation

Date: 17 - 18 April 2024
Place: Musée des Beaux-Arts / Museum voor de Schone Kunsten
 

The conference explored pathways towards a more needs-driven innovation and healthcare policy, where needs are defined in an evidence-based manner and public resources directed towards the most pressing needs of patients and society.

Research funding, regulatory incentives for medical innovation, and the authorisation and reimbursement of healthcare interventions are still too often supply driven, that is responding to developer actions or suggestions, rather than being based on pre-defined priorities on patient and societal needs. The conference examined pathways towards a more needs-driven innovation and healthcare policy, where needs are defined in an evidence-based manner and public resources directed towards the most pressing needs of patients and society.

During this conference, the NEED team presented key results from its four recent reports on the assessment of unmet needs of patients and society.

👉EU presidency high-level conference: brochure

👉EU presidency high-level conference: unmet needs session1-video

About NEED

NEED is financially supported by the Belgian Federal Science Policy (BELSPO) through the INFRA-FED call.

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Project coordinators

dr. Irina Cleemput

KCE

irina.cleemput@kce.fgov.be

prof. dr. Robby De Pauw

Sciensano, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Service Health Information

robby.depauw@sciensano.be