Assessing the real-world data policy landscape for health and healthcare in Europe

"Real-world data (RWD) is an umbrella term for different types of data that are not collected in conventional randomised controlled trials. In the healthcare sector, RWD can be obtained from many sources and includes patient data, data from clinicians, hospital data, data from payers and social data."

Assessing the real-world data policy landscape for health and healthcare in Europe
C Miani, E Robin, V Horvath, C Manville, J Cave, J Chataway
RAND Europe
2014

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Care.data: guide for GP practices

"Care.data will make increased use of information from medical records with the intention of improving healthcare, for example by ensuring that timely and accurate data are made available to NHS commissioners and providers so that they can better design integrated services for patients."

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Electronic health records: an international perspective on “meaningful use”

"This issue brief describes the extent of meaningful use in three countries with very high levels of health information technology adoption—Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden."

Electronic health records: an international perspective on “meaningful use”
BH Gray, T Bowden, I Johansen, S Koch
Issues in International Health Policy
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2011

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