Editorial: Affordable Healthcare & Digital Innovation

Affordable innovation: future directions in pharmaceutical policy

In 2009, Jayadev and Stiglitz [1] proposed ‘two ideas’ to increase innovation and reduce pharmaceutical costs and prices. These were the use of value-based pricing and promoting public funding of clinical trials. Since then, NICE has tried and not yet succeeded to introduce value-based pricing, Persson and Jonsson [2] suggest that international reference pricing should cease, Gilead has made bi...

Leadership for Innovation in Healthcare: An Exploration

Although leadership has been studied extensively, most research has focused on the political and military spheres. More recent work has also examined the role of leadership in sectors such as manufacturing and technology, both areas where it is essential to encourage and nurture innovation. Yet, in the health sector, where innovation is now high on the policy agenda in many countries, there is ...

Pretenders to the throne of affordable healthcare?

Innovation and Engagement : Guest Editorial

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Editorial: Digital Visions and Digital Identity