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2017 16 Feb
Does More Value Naturally Lead to Better Care?
Value-based healthcare (VBHC) starts with the patient and uses patient-oriented outcomes to improve care. Not everything can be expressed in figures: psychological and sociological factors play a role as well. The medical-industrial complex does not...
2017 08 Mar
Why Don’t We Introduce Patients Into Healthcare Management?
“Good morning Mr. Smith. Good to see you, how are you doing? You’re looking for a new car? That’s good news. We decided that it’s going to be a Ford Focus, ST, 2.0 Eco-boost, 184 KW, 6-gear. Let’s see in our stock if there is a possibility for you to...
2017 07 May
Peter Kapitein
Patient Advocate, Inspire2Live, Amsterdam, the Netherlands If about us, not without us Healthcare exists because we patients exist and therefore we should not only be asked about what we want, we should also...
2017 07 Jun
There Might Be Too Much Money In Healthcare
I was struck by a press announcement of the United States Food and Drug Administration of 23 May 2017: ‘ FDA approves first cancer treatment for any solid tumour with a specific genetic feature ’ This is good news. Because it means that the...
2017 19 Sep
Responsible research innovation – heard of that before?
A reminder about who is at the centre of the complex healthcare hierarchy and industry – the patient. In May I was present at the excellent congress “Responsible Research and Innovation in the Health Industry”, organised among others by...
2018 20 Feb
The payer determines, but it is not the patient
In healthcare patients are not consumers with the economic power they have in other markets, but the arguments for patient involvement are compelling. "Healthcare is like dog food business." Here we hear an American explaining that in healthcare,...
2018 23 May
General Data Protection Regulation and healthcare
What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in...
2018 27 Jun
Share our data: GDPR and the patient view
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving control back to citizens...
2018 22 Sep
The need and speed of cooperation instead of competition in research
Questions that need to be answered taking into account benefits for the patient. Academic rivalry is not in the patient’s interest, and as long as patients are not involved in healthcare and healthcare research on an equal basis there will...