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Peter Kapitein

Peter connects patients, researchers and clinicians to further research, treatments and care; in the Netherlands as well as internationally. He organises congresses, lobbies the matrix of public authorities, health care organisations, insurance companies and health research institutes. Peter also gives lectures and talks to help patients and society to fight cancer where possible and live with cancer with a good quality of life. He is a writer of blogs, articles and books that also contributes to these topics.

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President, Patient Advocate Inspire2Live, Amsterdam, the Netherlands — Inspire2Live has been created to empower people to convert the sense of powerlessness, caused by cancer, into one of strength. Inspire2Live is founded on the absolute belief that one can attain the greatest possible satisfaction by putting their heart and soul into helping others. Its motto is “Never, ever quit!”.

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Awareness, Education, Prevention and Government
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What About Post-Corona?
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What About Post-Corona?
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We Can Eradicate Cervical Cancer!
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We Can Eradicate Cervical Cancer!
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: When Accountability Becomes Responsi
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: When Accountability Becomes Responsibility
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: Autonomy for Patient and Oncologist
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Patient’s Voice to Cancel Cancer: Autonomy for Patient and Oncologist – That Helps
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Prevent or Treat in Latin America
- 04:56 PM, Feb 15
In Latin America there is a big need for prevention as many people do not have access to treatment due to high costs. Prevention not only in terms of becoming sick but also of not paying more than necessary. The situation varies across the continent, and in some countries there are good working examples. Still, the challenges of cancer in Latin America demand immediate action. By joining forces of...
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Is Patient Really Empowered in Medical Industrial Complex?
- 11:19 AM, Nov 12
A veteran patient advocate questions some of the hyped patient-engagement concepts and the reality of their practical applications within the ‘medical industrial complex’, and offers some strategies to change ‘the way we work’. Key Points In the medical industrial complex, stakeholders are distracted from the essence, i.e. the patient. There are many obstacles on the way to...
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Risks, Costs, Benefits and Trust in Healthcare - Why and When Do We Tr
- 02:28 PM, Sep 28
With artificial intelligence and personalised medicine playing an increasingly important role in today’s healthcare, one cannot help but wonder about the regulation of these fields. An expert analyses the pros and cons of the ‘checks and balances’ system that exists today and argues that too much regulation may result in negative patient outcomes. Key Points The two sides of any regulation,...
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‘The Death of Cancer’ - The Patient Perspective
- 10:15 AM, Aug 26
Summary: Cancer affects everybody's life at some point. ‘The Death of Cancer,' written by one of oncology's leading figures, Dr Vincent T. DeVita, documents his own journey for the cure. Dr Peter Kapitein gives his personal review on the book. In 2005 I was diagnosed with lymph gland cancer and became interested in the medical industrial complex: everything that has to do with healthcare...
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The need and speed of cooperation instead of competition in research
- 02:42 AM, Sep 22
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 be no solutions for the questions that need answering. Leó Szilárd wrote in 1948 The Mark Gable Foundation (Szilárd 1961). When asked by a wealthy...
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Share our data: GDPR and the patient view
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- 04:32 AM, Jun 27
Share our data: GDPR and the patient view
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General Data Protection Regulation and healthcare
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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 all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving control back to citizens and to make the regulatory env
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The payer determines, but it is not the patient
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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 like in buying dog food, the consumer is not the one who determines what is on the menu, nor the one who pays. Patients are not consumers in the...
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Responsible research innovation – heard of that before?
- 10:37 PM, Sep 19
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 and Social Committee. I had the honour of speaking about my ideas on innovation and the obstacles that are connected with it. Of course...
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There Might Be Too Much Money In Healthcare
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There Might Be Too Much Money In Healthcare
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Peter Kapitein
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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 decide about all matters in healthcare. Simply for the sake of the patients and their loved ones and for the sake of lower costs in healthcare. I’m...
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Why Don’t We Introduce Patients Into Healthcare Management?
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- 08:35 AM, Mar 08
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Does More Value Naturally Lead to Better Care?
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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 benefit from VBHC, which is the reason why the different interests are not always advantageous to the patient. With an approach that starts with...
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