Healthcare Enablers

About Healthcare Enablers

Societal developments never before happened so fast. They create an everchanging context in which new technology features prominently. The increasing demand on the health care system, the shortage on the job market and the change in social context and healthcare demand ask for innovation, new healthcare supply and solutions. For example, guaranteeing continuity of healthcare due to staff shortages is in some regions no longer a threat for the future, but has now become a reality. The corona crisis has made us more aware of the potential of digital care innovation. But were to begin? And how do we accelerate scaling up proven technological innovations?

Healthcare Enablers is an initiative from strategy- and innovation bureau BeBright and the National eHealth Living Lab. Since 2017, Health Enablers provides an annual publication with an overview of the most important technological development regarding healthcare in the Netherlands and abroad. For inspiration, but also to profit from new technological opportunities together and work on a sustainable healthcare system where quality and efficiency go together. In this way we offer knowledge about the technical developments to increase the innovative capacity of healthcare!

This platform combines insights from all Healthcare Enablers publications, presents domestic and foreign technological healthcare innovations in one database and we share tips and tricks to increase innovation possibilities for your organization. The goal is to share and learn from high quality knowledge and insights, both from success stories as from (brilliant) failures. In this way we can increase the innovation- and learning capacity of healthcare and accelerate and perpetuate healthcare transformation. The fifth edition of Healthcare Enablers will be published on the 26th of November 2021.

Who we inspire

Administrators and supervisors

How do I appropriately prepare my organization for future changes? A question where a lot of healthcare directors and supervisors form hospitals to nursing homes, care homes, domestic care, mental healthcare and disabled healthcare institutions are struggling with. The overwhelming amount of technological innovations make it difficult to focus on the most suitable option. Healthcare Enablers provides them guidance to create a vision and a framework for digital transformation of healthcare. In order to increase innovation capacity of the organization and to prepare them on a changing future.

Healthcare professionals

What do all these technological innovations mean for my role as a healthcare professional? More and more technology is becoming available that might, or that will be, of influence for (future) healthcare professionals in their daily practice, from primary care processes to supporting processes. Simultaneously, in practice there is a lot unknown and unclear about new technological developments that are increasingly presented in the media and corridor. Healthcare Enablers gives an overview of (impact of) new and already existing technological opportunities, and thereby the role of (future) healthcare professionals.

Innovators in healthcare

Innovation in healthcare: where do I begin and how can I learn from other successful implementations? We provide an independent, structured overview of proven effective healthcare technology to both experienced and inexperienced healthcare innovators. Healthcare Enablers presents multiple tools and tips for successfully implementing healthcare innovations and to scale up within and around your own organization.

And Others
The goal of Healthcare Enablers is to share and learn from high quality knowledge and insights, both from success stories as from (brilliant) failures. Healthcare Enablers facilitates and participates in the dialog on digital healthcare transformation for, among others, government, insurance providers and regional collaborations; supports IT suppliers and new entrants to the healthcare market; supports organisations in implementing their digital agenda; and inspires other interested parties with interest in digital healthcare innovation.

How we inspire

Masterclasses, guest lectures and keynotes

The Healthcare Enablers team often provides keynotes, guest lectures and masterclasses on national- and international meetings and events. And for individual (care)organisations and branch associations to broad conferences with regard to healthcare and technology. Themes that are discussed vary from ‘most important technological developments in healthcare’, ‘key to successful care innovation’ to ‘the importance of (clinical) leadership in the digital healthcare transformation’.

 

 

Health CatchUPs on digital healthcare innovation

In collaboration with the Dutch Health Hub, the Healthcare Enablers team starts with organizing an annual meeting with regard to digital healthcare innovation, named Health CatchUPs. About three to four times a year, small meetings are organised to inspire and activate directors and other healthcare innovators in the digital healthcare transformation with unheard voices. To share knowledge and experiences, and to perpetuate new connections. More information will follow!

Increasing organizations’ innovation capacity

Besides tips and tricks on this platform to increase the innovation capacity of your own organisation, the Healthcare Enablers team also guides (care)organisations in this. From support in developing digital strategies and innovation agenda’s to extensive assessments to map sticking points in an organization’s innovation capacity. Here, we also apply our knowledge and learning points from our partners. This with the goal to enable the organization to anticipate as well as possible to the (digital) care of the future.

Council of inspiration and network of cool hunters

To ensure the independence and relevance of the innovations selected by Healthcare Enablers, they work together with an international Council of Inspiration. The council exists of professors and internationally recognized professionals, who give them inspiration and test the content without personal interests. The Healthcare Enablers team also works together with a network of ‘coolhunters’, better known as trendwatchers, who are daily active all around the world to scout new impactful healthcare technologies.

Curious how the Zorg Enablers team or one of the partners can help you?
Then contact us!

Our Team

Philip Idenburg MSc. MBA
Author Healthcare Enablers & Managing Partner BeBright
Sjoerd Emonts MSc.
Coordinator /Author Healthcare Enablers & Advisor BeBright
Prof. dr. Niels Chavannes MD, PhD
Author Healthcare Enablers & Founder National eHealth Living Lab
Mart Schoondermark MSc.
Analyst/ Coolhunter Healthcare Enablers & Advisor BeBright
Lea Bouwmeester MSc.
Strategist Healthcare Enablers & Boundary Spanner BeBright
Jiska de Wit MSc.
Strategist Healthcare Enablers & Senior Advisor BeBright

INITIATORS

BeBright is a strategy and innovation consultancy firm for healthcare and one of the first certified social enterprises in the Netherlands. BeBright wants to make an impactful contribution to the Dutch healthcare. A part of it is the annual publication of Healthcare enablers: an overview of new and proven effective eHealth solutions. Bebright also supports healthcare facilities with the actual implementation. In Diagnois Transformation, BeBright previously bundled insights into the transformation task of healthcare.

 

To BeBright website

The National eHealth Living Lab (NeLL) is the independent knowledge network for eHealth. Together with researchers and experts, intensive work is done within the network on developing effective eHealth applications. Besides short- and long-term research into eHealth, NeLL is in the lead of developing validation methods and has a pioneering role in the realization of internationally applicable eHealth standards.

 

To NeLL website