Future of Health

Tijdens een studiereis met een groep Belgische ziekenhuis IT specialisten naar Dubai, had ik meerder conversaties met Jo vander Schueren, de CEO van Jarviss. Een van die gesprekken ging over de uitdagingen in dit tijdperken AI, worden de dreigingen groter, of -met hulp er van- beter ? We deden dit dunnetjes over eenmaal terug in eigen land. Jarviss is een bedrijf wat veel zorgorganisaties in Belgi...

Nurses : notes in your pocket, trailing messages & colleagues, a thousand tasks to fill and three phones in your scrubs. Sounds familiar èh. With the ever-increasing number of programs, screens and systems handling during shifts did not get easier, there are growing places to interact with and find info. In my travel and speaking activities I came across a program of Microsoft with a name that...

Myriam Fernández Martín, Healthcare lead AWS : 💙 I became a nurse to care for people. I moved to the cloud to make sure millions more could be cared for too. That's the lens I carry with me. Every single day. I sat down with Lucien Engelen and Jessica Workum on the ICT&health Global Podcast to explore a question that keeps me up at night: How do we build resilience into healthcare without...

We roepen vaak dat de zorg moet veranderen, maar in de praktijk blijven we vaak hangen in oude patronen. In de nieuwste ICT&health Podcast spreekt @Marjolein Heemels klare taal over de noodzakelijke transitie in de zorg. Marjolein Heemels en Eugène Waterval vertellen over het magnetmodel: een accreditatieprogramma dat onderzoekt waarom verpleegkundigen in sommige ziekenhuizen blijven en in and...

Breaking habits, not foundations. Jeroen Tas. "Changing the healthcare sector is not a sprint, but a marathon against the current. In the latest podcast with Lucien Engelen for @ict & Health, Jeroen Tas shares how we can use AI for better patient outcomes and why we must dare to let go of control a little."

This is the  first essay  sharing my thoughts about the transformation needed around AI, and is at ground level, establishing the foundational principles and clarifying why healthcare must treat AI as infrastructure rather than as departmental software.  The second essay I'm developing will dive more deeply into the how-to, how we transition from operational implementation to strategic transformat...

During the ⁠ICT&health World Conference⁠ , ⁠Lucien Engelen⁠ sat down with Amber Vodegel . Why does the best tech talent end up at TikTok instead of healthcare? Amber sold her company to Philips and took a year off. But sitting still wasn’t an option. Inspired by Rutger Bregman’s ‘Moral Ambition’, she decided to put her talent where it truly matters. The result is 28X, a femtech app for cycle t...

Predicting the next Pandemic with Dr. Larry Brilliant. The next pandemic will not be a virus. During the ICT&health World Conference , Lucien Engelen sat down with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant for a focused conversation on what he sees as the real global threat: a worldwide pandemic of chronic disease that is shortening healthy life expectancy and quietly destabilising healthcare systems and...

How can we improve physician, nurse and care team collaboration? Interprofessional collaboration, patient engagement, healthcare innovation, nursing, AI in healthcare, patient education, healthcare culture, simulation training, self-care, and healthcare barriers. An episode moderated in December 2025 by Lucien Engelen with Alessio Morley-Fletcher, MD, MMSc , Marjolein Heemels (RN, MSc, MHA) Heemel...

The viral video of Will Smith eating spaghetti became a shorthand for how fast generative AI can improve. From awkward and unreliable to almost flawless in a year. At the @ICT&health World Conference in Maastricht, Daniel Kraft, MD used that moment to explain what we are now seeing in healthcare AI. Early systems struggled with hallucinations and narrow use cases. Today, AI supports medical im...

Interprofessional collaboration, patient engagement, healthcare innovation, nursing, AI in healthcare, patient education, healthcare culture, simulation training, self-care, healthcare barriers. An episode moderated by Lucien Engelen with Alessio Morley-Fletcher, MD, MMSc, Marjolein (RN, MSc, MHA) Heemels and Dave (e-Patient Dave) deBronkart This conversation explores the critical theme of interpr...

What 6 Surprising Insights Everyone Gets Wrong About Health Tech. Six surprising Insights of Edition #6-2025 of ICT & Health magazine that also will be discussed, debated and explored at the ICT & health World Conference January 27-29, 2026 in Maastricht . Healthcare is often portrayed as a technological solution to its problems. AI, big data, and digital transformation are seen as the sil...

This report from the RN2Blend consortium presents findings from a five-year study on differentiated nursing practices in Dutch hospitals. The research explores how hospitals are implementing varied roles for nurses, the challenges they encounter, and the effects on professional development, care quality, and cost-effectiveness. The study demonstrates that differentiated working leads to increased...

NotebookLM version of my essay (soon to be published on my LinkedIn page)  in which I examine the evolving role of Human Resources (HR) in healthcare, emphasising its transition from an administrative function to a strategic driver of organisational success. The chapters outline several of HR's new responsibilities concerning clinician retention, engagement, and satisfaction, as well as its growin...

In this episode, an audio extract of Lucien Engelen’s lecture at the Majlis Mohammed bin Zayed in November 2024, discusses the future of healthcare delivery. We examine the healthcare crisis marked by workforce shortages and systemic pressures. Lucien presents innovative views on how technology and retail integration can transform healthcare, highlighting that interventions make up only 6% of heal...

In this posting, I argue that training doctors and nurses separately can be problematic, leading to challenges in teamwork, communication, and understanding each other's roles. It outlines six key reasons why separate training is problematic: it reinforces role silos, hinders communication, creates a lack of understanding of each other's roles, inhibits patient-centred care, increases the risk of...

Recent studies challenge the notion of radical life extension, suggesting we may be approaching biological limits. Analysis of mortality rates from 1990-2019 shows a slowdown in life expectancy growth across most populations. Only South Korea and Hong Kong briefly achieved the 0.3-year annual increase considered 'radical'. Experts estimate less than 15% of females and 5% of males may reach 100 yea...

A groundbreaking report by WHO and ITU reveals that a modest investment of $0.24 per patient annually in digital health tools could save over 2 million lives from noncommunicable diseases in the next decade. These digital interventions, including telemedicine and mobile messaging, could also prevent 7 million hospitalizations. While 60% of countries have digital health strategies, integration rema...

I had Google NotebookLM create a podcast about two important documents, " The Boston Paradox " and " Healthy People in a Healthy Economy,  A Blueprint for Action in Massachusetts ", both from 2007 and 2009. All of this is still relevant and at the forefront of what we should do to create sustainable health(care), everywhere in the world. Something I coined our " Plumbers problem ": we wait till so...

Within 5 minutes, one can create a narrated podcast version of an article, presentation or even a book with Google's NotebookLM. I've used my 2018 book " Augmented Health (care), The End of the Beginning " in this example. In a 10-minute podcast the essence of my book (even though the algorithm had to make some choices ;-)  

Tjeerd Bosklopper was appointed CEO Netherlands Non-life, Banking & Technology on 1 June 2020. In this role, Tjeerd is responsible for the Dutch Non-life, Banking business segments, and Customer & Commerce. He also remains responsible for innovation, digital transformation, and IT in the Netherlands. #virtualcoffee: Dialogues about the Future of Health including innovation, the new era of...

I had a great #virtualcoffee with Jarno Duursma , who wanted to interview me for his podcast . We combined our mission to share knowledge and did a podcast and a #virtualcoffee on Linkedin LIVE into one session.

#VirtualCoffee with Dominique van Seggelen and Randy Jagt about oppertunities on the intersection of the Future of Food and the Future of Health

Audio version Virtual Coffee with Dave de Bronkhart aka ePatientDave

Virtual Coffee with Daniel Kraft about the impact of COVID-19 on innovation in healthcare and beyond. Video of this LinkedIn LIVE session on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obzmr5blbp4&t=13s