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Behind every framework are the people who make it possible. UNIFIED is building a future where healthcare decisions better reflect what matters most to patients. While the project focuses on developing a framework for integrating patient preferences, clinical outcomes, and digital health technologies-derived measures into healthcare decision-making, its foundation is built on people: patients, researchers, clinicians, and advocates working together to ensure that healthcare

The UNIFIED Consortium has published its first editorial in The Patient – Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: “Putting Patient Voices at the Heart of Healthcare Decisions: The UNIFIED Public-Private Project”. The article introduces the vision behind UNIFIED and highlights the importance of integrating patient perspectives more effectively into healthcare decision-making throughout the medical product lifecycle. The editorial was authored by Esther de Bekker-Grob, Jorien Vel

The UNIFIED project seeks to transform healthcare innovation by integrating the insights and experiences of patients across all phases of research, development, and implementation. A cornerstone of this commitment is the establishment of the Patient Advisory Group (PAG), composed of 15 lived experience patients and caregivers from outside the consortium, representing one of the UNIFIED medical domains: Paediatric Radiation Oncology, Lung Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Obesity,