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Georgia Republican, US Rep. Phil Gingrey called for greater collaboration on electronic medical records. Image: House Republican Conference

When it comes to healthcare, if the US and Europe worked together they could cut costs, spur innovation, and tackle their common health problems, according to a group of experts that met in Washington July 12.

“If we would find ways to have an overall common approach in healthcare we could achieve much more,” according to Alexander von Gabain, an Austrian biopharma entrepreneur and chairman-elect of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. “We have to find ways of getting healthcare costs down – by working together, expanding  best practice, and cooperating intellectually and financially,” agreed Bart Gordon, former chairman of the US House Committee on Science and Technology and now a partner at Washington law firm K&L Gates.

 

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Author: Richard L. Hudson