Healthcare Europa speaks to Jos de Blok , CEO of Buurtzorg, the Netherlands-based homecare specialist, to find out more about its business model and the unique difficulties in operating in the Dutch market.
PharmAccess is a Dutch NGO that works to improve healthcare access and services in sub-Saharan Africa through mobile technology and providing financial loans. It was a finalist because the M-TIBA solution is unique, claims 250,000 users and incremental increase in revenue. It connects patients and providers, remitters and employers, as well as governments, insurers and donors onto one platform.
Karify acts as a cloud-based platform, that supports mental health therapy sessions with online supplementary digital care. It is active in the field of mental health and provide tailored unique programs in depression, anxiety, ADHD, mindfulness, chronic pain, meditation and substance disorder programs. The platform claims to cut readmission rates by between 11-40%.
The non-medicalised homecare services market in the Netherlands could be set for rapid expansion, following a decision by the Dutch Ministry of Health to standardise and limit co-payments to municipalities.
Domiciliary homecare is regarded with much scepticism by private equity and many large nursing home groups. How do you build quality? How do you compete with mom'n'pops? But some groups are definitely building scale internationally.
France-based international care giant Orpea continues to establish a foothold in the Dutch healthcare market, with the acquisition of nursing home chain Dagelijks Leven. Healthcare Europa speaks to a Paris-based consultant following Orpea, and Dutch adviser, to find out more.
We hear that the Dutch government has reached agreement to move to a value health model with healthcare budgets frozen from 2021 onwards. A fund of €425m has been set up to enable the change, much of which will be spent on digital health solutions.
A dutch digital start up is now serving 100,000 patients in its own home market and has expanded to four other countries. It claimed to cut healthcare costs for its patients by 65% at the HIMSS 2018 conference.
Could pan-European lab player Unilabs be looking to consolidate the Dutch diagnostic market? It recently completed the purchase of Medlon, a laboratory with a workforce of around 450 employees. We speak to an advisor who thinks this might just lead to further consolidation of an unusual market.
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