Examples 

• Counterfeit Medicines This work, undertaken for the international pharmaceutical industry, has included developing a method to deal with rogue traders of counterfeit medicines, by developing the "pharmaceutical safety chain". 
• Predictive Health This project for the English Department of Health was the first policy-oriented examination of the impact of predictive modelling and artificial intelligence on healthcare.
  
• Benchmarking 4th Hurdle Systems The performance of medicines regulators came under scrutiny in this work, conducted for industry and involving detailed examination of the 4th hurdle systems of 8 OECD countries. This work has been reported in the health technology assessment literature.
  
• Electronic Prescribing With the rising interest in ICT in healthcare, this work for the English Department of Health looked at the social and likely implications of the increased use of electronic intermediaries in the prescribing supply chain.
  
• Internet and Health This involved working with an expert committee of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. The result was Recommendation (2004)17 on new media and patients, issued by the Council.
  
• Digital Interactive Television Policy research on emerging technologies for the English Department of Health led to a significant examination of the potential to exploit interactive technologies to deliver information and health services into people's homes through the television. A key result was the establishment of a digital health service available to people in their homes through their television sets.

Example publications and reports

• John Hutton, Clare McGrath, Jean-Marc Frybourg, Mike Tremblay, Edward Bramley-Harker & Christopher Henshall, Framework for describing and classifying decision-making systems using technology assessment to determine the reimbursement of health technologies (fourth hurdle systems), International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 22, Issue 01, January 2006, pp 10-18. 
  
• Rodney Elgie, June Crown & Michael Tremblay, A long life - and all of it healthy: the ideal of healthy ageing in Europe, Eurohealth 11 (4-2005)15-21.
  
• J. Nolte with M. Tremblay, Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care in Canada, The Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care Initiative, Conference Board of Canada, 2005. 
  
• Predictive Health, Department of Health, UK, 2005.
  
• Thinking beyond technology: finding the e-health winners, Submission to the House of Commons Health Committee on the use of new medical technologies within the NHS, January 2005.
  
• M. Tremblay (lead author), Report of the Expert Committee: Patients and the Internet, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 2002. [led to Council of Europe Recommendation Rec(2004)17 of the Committee of Ministers]
• Finding Common Ground: Solving the problem of trade in counterfeit medicines, 21st Century Healthcare Terrorism: the perils of international drug counterfeiting, Washington DC, 2005.
  
• The impact on private health insurance of public sector health reform. Insurance Cover Conference, London, 2004.
  
• The Social Implications of Electronic Prescribing, UK Department of Health, 2004.
  
• The next step to NHS reform: the NHS Foundation, British Journal of Healthcare Management, 10(4, 2004)118-120. 
  
• Democracy and Governance: Submission to the House of Commons Health Committee on Foundation Trusts, January 2003. (UK) 
  
• E-procurement and health in Europe, Eurohealth 6(4-2000)35-37. [health supply chain in Europe]
  
• Health on the web, Eurohealth 6(3-2000)4-16 (guest editor). 
  
• Exploding health care myths - the real threats to public health. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 5(3-1999)89-91. 

Some presentations

• Finding Common Ground: The Perils of International Drug Counterfeiting, Washington and Brussels
• Policy Issues in Chronic Disease Management, Department of Health, UK
  
• European cross-border health, Department of Health, UK
  
• The citizen is the real Minister of Health, Nortelemed Conference, Norway
  
• European health policy, INSEAD, France
  
• European health policy following Decker and Kohll, INSEAD, Granada, Spain
  
• Building partnerships with government, Chairman, Conference on Exporting Managed Care to Europe, Washington, D.C.
  
• Governance of independent hospitals, Spain