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KCE Reports 354C (2022)

KCE Reports 345C (2021) Each year, in Belgium, around 15,000 people have a pacemaker or defibrillator-type of heart device fitted. Some of these patients have their devices monitored remotely, but this service is not currently reimbursed. KCE was asked to assess the efficacy and the cost-effectiveness of this remote monitoring, and to examine the extent to which it would be desirable to reimburse the services of the health professionals concerned.

KCE Reports 337C (2020)All the federal services are gradually moving into the digital age, and healthcare is no exception. For general practitioners, however, this shift is not always passing off as smoothly as had been anticipated – even though the COVID-19 epidemic has speeded things up considerably.

KCE Reports 328C (2020) The last decades have witnessed a real boom in the use of digital technologies, and the healthcare sector has been no exception to this trend. These technologies have been given various names and definitions: remote healthcare, teleconsultation, telemonitoring, tele-expertise, eHealth, mHealth, and so on.