On 30 June the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China launched its sixth annual "European Business Confidence Survey. The main finding of the survey is that European businesses remain confident about business prospects in China but would like to see the Chinese government create a more free, fair and competitive market. Currently, a lot of European companies feel not enough has been done to fully use the potential of China's economy. Nonetheless, 71% of respondents indicated that the Chinese economy has proven more resilient than the economy in Europe or other traditionally strong markets. Moreover 37% reported that China has become a more important market for them. The results draw on the responses of more than 300 European companies active in China. Read more...
Health-E-Child, a new project partially funded by the European Commission, aims to gain a comprehensive view of a child's health storing biomedical data, information and knowledge into a central database, accessible to paediatrics all over Europe. “The plan of this project is to build a database of biomedicine for paediatrics, to which different institutions all over Europe have access. Some [child disorder] cases are very rare and sharing knowledge with other institutions is very useful", Joerg Freund, co-ordinator of the Health e-child Project, says. By studying 3D images and other data from similar cases, surgeons can feel more confident about their own case. Read more...
The results of a US study on cost-effectiveness of knee replacements finds that a $20,000 knee replacement procedure provides good value in terms of quality of life for the patient and in terms of return on investment for the healthcare budget. The entire procedure and additional costs amount to $57,900 per patient or $20,800 more than the cost of a patient who does not undergo the surgery. However, the results of the study show that patients with artificial knees live over a year longer in good health, falling well within the cost-effectiveness treshold of $50,000 per year of improved quality of life. Read more...
Eucomed is currently looking for an individual (m/f) for the position of Manager, Economic Affairs to help run programme activity in the area of economic affairs.
