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Featured in HealthManagement.org
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 always...
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 NetherlandsIf about us, not without usHealthcare exists because we patients exist and therefore we should not only be asked about what we want, we should also decide about all matters in healthcare. Simply...
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 knowledge...
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 the EU Economic...
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, just...