Exploring Healthcare in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway
ACCESS Health International and the Dutch Task Force Health Care are partnering on a series of three new studies and fact finding missions that will explore healthcare systems in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The studies will provide an in depth look at how healthcare …
Open Elder Care Markets: An interview with Dr. Alfred Chan
Professor Alfred Chan Cheung Ming, better known as Dr. Alfred Chan, is chairman of the Elderly Commission of Hong Kong. Elder care is an important topic in Hong Kong – the elderly population is increasing by more than two percent annually. I spoke …
Providing Blended Elder Care: An interview with Daan Dohmen
Dr. Daan Dohmen is the founder and chief executive officer of FocusCura, an eHealth provider currently operating Europe. The company focuses on independent living for elderly persons and the chronically ill, providing a “blended care” service where patients can receive personal visits …
Dutch Elder Care: An interview with Roland de Wolf
Earlier this year I spent two weeks in the Netherlands, as part of my research into best practices in elder care. Here in Sweden, where I am based, many healthcare professions view the Netherlands as a country that promotes innovation in elder …
TioHundra Case Study Featured in MedTech Magazine
The TioHundra case study by Sofia Widén of ACCESS Health Sweden is featured this month in MedTech Magazine. The feature is in Swedish on page forty two but a summary of the case study can be found below. TioHundra provides healthcare, home …
What Pinetree Can Teach Homecare Providers
I visited the Pinetree Homecare and Home Healthcare provider in Beijing during my trip last February. I spent the afternoon with Ninie Wang who is the founder and chief executive officer of Pinetree Care Group. This was part of my research into …
China Demonstration Project: Setting a National Benchmark in Eldercare
I traveled to the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang in late February. Shijiazhuang is nearly two hours southwest of Beijing. ACCESS Health Sweden and ACCESS Health China have partnered with several organizations in Sweden and China to conduct a feasibility study on health …
Hogewey: Dementia Care Done Differently
This is the fourth blog post in a series about cutting edge elder care in the Netherlands. In this blog post, we take a closer look at the Dementia Village at Hogewey. During my recent trip to the Netherlands, I traveled thirty minutes …
Neighborhood Care: A Model for Better Homecare
This is the third blog post in a series about cutting edge elder care in the Netherlands. In this blog post, we take a closer look at Buurtzorg. …
Blended Care with a Focus on Wellbeing and Social Connection
Innovation is combining knowledge from different fields to solve a pressing problem. This is exactly what the eHealth entrepreneur Dr. Daan Dohmen is doing in Holland with his software applications in elder care. …
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