An insight on FLASH cross-border healthcare: the project proposes concrete solutions, from direct cross-border contracts to smarter legal frameworks, to address a real and pressing issue. Today, a patient in the Czech border region requiring emergency care in Germany faces…
The paper investigates how the quality of local institutions shaped the ability of Italian communities to withstand and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on monthly mortality data spanning two decades and covering 583 Local Labour Market Areas across the…
This paper evaluates the adoption and long-term use of MyHealth, the digital platform of the Catalan National Health System, covering over 9.4 million individuals and 727 million health interactions between 2015 and 2023. The findings reveal that, despite the platform's…
This paper evaluates the recovery of elective admissions in Italian hospitals following the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on the dynamics between the public and private healthcare sectors. Employing a recovery metric that compares elective…
We are pleased to announce the release of the Good Practices and Guidelines for Policy Makers, developed within the FLASH project.
This concise document provides key recommendations to help policymakers adopt a structured, evidence-based and multi-dimensional approach to health innovation.
In recent months, several events have been organized within the framework of the FLASH Project, providing valuable opportunities to share our research findings at both European and international levels. On 26 September 2025, researchers from Work Package 5 (WP5) participated…
On 16 and 17 October, the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS) and IDIAPJGol, partners of the European FLASH Project, organised two workshops in Barcelona dedicated to exploring how data and economic evidence can drive the transformation of primary care…
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has shown how even high-performing healthcare systems are often unprepared to cope with sudden and unforeseen surges in demand for healthcare services, drawing further attention on crucial factors ensuring their resilience in the face of extreme…
Health care systems rely on geographical boundaries that secure financial stability and adequate planning. Quality differences across regions often arise for efficiency reasons, causing patient flows if mobility is free. In this paper, a theoretical spatial competition model is developed…
The FLASH Consortium gathered for its Annual Meeting, hosted at the University of Vilnius. The FLASH project undertakes a comprehensive analysis of healthcare financing mechanisms in Europe and, by employing a wide range of methodological approaches, it provides evidence on…