EU trade groups discuss value-based healthcare

Today, APIFARMA (the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Industry Association), ICHOM (the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement) and EFPIA (the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Companies and Associations) are hosting a full-day seminar in Lisbon on how the consistent measurement of outcomes can improve care for patients.

The workshop is an opportunity to discuss how to put outcomes-based healthcare into practice at national level to deliver more for patients while making healthcare systems more financially sustainable.

Speaking on behalf of APIFARMA, João Almeida Lopes argues that "better results in Health are a common goal for all health stakeholders, in Europe and Portugal." The president of the APIFARMA board says: "We have to progress, for the benefit of patients and health system sustainability, to a methodology that optimizes the results in Health.” Therefore we place “the patient at the center of the system while fostering for a more humanistic and sustainable healthcare model", he concludes.