The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast

Today, we’re discussing why we need to shift away from the tasks of sustainability being lifted and spearheaded by passionate individual heroes that more often than not burn out from the stress. We will be discussing why transitioning to a systematic approach can create an impact on a much larger scale. Enjoy this episode! --- The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast is a podcast hosted and sponsored by...

In this episode, Joachim & Frederik are again getting tactical. This time about how to create a habitual learning facility inside organizations which in turn will lead to sustainability literacy – a deeper understanding of the words, phrases, and terms commonly used in the sustainable healthcare community. We’re asking ourselves the question: How can we help our clients learn about sustainable...

In this week's episode, Alexandra Jønsson is back and diving deeper into over diagnostics, overtreatment, why it is important to be cautious, how it looks in practical terms, and of course how it ties into sustainability. If you haven’t listened to the first episode with Alexandra, go back and listen to that, which orbits mostly about healthism and why we feel obligated to say yes to treatments. E...

In this episode, we’re guested by Alexandra Jønsson that has recently released her book “Soon we are all patients”. Learn about how she differs between health inequality and health inequity. We’re talking about the costs of overdiagnosis over treatment, healthism in our culture, and why it’s hard to say no to treatments as an individual and much more. Enjoy! --- The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast...

In this a little bit different episode, we’re talking about how to cope with Climate Change, the Biodiversity crisis and everything in between. How should we as humans cope with climate change? Frederik is feeling strangely optimistic about it, mostly because a lot of pledges are being made. Enjoy! --- The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast is a podcast hosted and sponsored by Green Innovation Group,...

How can you move the needle in a sustainability transformation? That question are we trying to answer today. Frederik van Deurs and Joachim Almdal is back in the studio and sharing - in-depth – about their own work when actually working with major pharma & MedTech companies on improving their sustainability profile. This is a very tactical episode where we talk about what a materiality assessm...

“It would be pretty shit to live on a dead planet” - that’s how Alexander Holm, this week’s return guest, explains why biodiversity is important. Last week we got the rundown of what biodiversity is and what the crisis drivers are. In this episode we’re diving deep into how and what this means for healthcare and how they can help reduce their negative impact. Enjoy this week’s episode! --- The Sus...

What is life is a question posed within the first 5 minutes of this episode and that sets the scene for the rest of the episode. In this week’s episode we’re happy to be guested by Alexander Holm, host of the podcast Den Dyriske Time. In this episode Alexander shares his massive knowledge on biodiversity and how it can be looked at commercially, what is a good strategy, and what is up and down in...

… and how to change that. This episode covers how to improve the success rate of the sustainability transformations that are started. We’re looking at the three main reasons sustainability transformations fail and addressing how to change each one. Moreover, we’re looking at how to create good analysis and most importantly what the difference between a goal and a strategy is We’re also looking at...

Today, Frederik & Joachim are looking back on the last year on what the biggest learnings during 2022 have been. We’re looking at what has been going on in Green Innovation Group, as we have made quite a big change to our entire business actually and that has – in short – been awesome. Enjoy this special episode. --- The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast is a podcast hosted and sponsored by Green...

In today's episode, Frederik & Joachim are covering what the B-Corp movement and framework are and dipping our toes into how this structured, holistic framework and process can help healthcare businesses optimize for creating more value for the planet and society as a whole. We’re looking at the compatibility of frameworks, which to pick, and when. Enjoy! --- The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast...

In today’s episode, Lasse, Senior Consultant in Green Innovation Group, is back with us and talking about the art of precision medicine. What it is, how it can help the healthcare sector and why it matters from a sustainability perspective. --- The Sustainable Healthcare Podcast is a podcast hosted and sponsored by Green Innovation Group, a Danish consulting firm with one mission: Reaching drawdow...

Today, Thea Falkenberg is back on the sustainable healthcare podcast to talk more concretely about how to actually work sustainability into the medical devices. Going into depth about why some of the project developed by engineers oftentimes fails, how sustainable fabric bags are compared to plastic bags and why plastics in and of itself is not a bad thing, but it’s about how we use it and how we...

In this episode, Joachim is interviewing Thea Falkenberg, Rockstar product developer, about how she and AMBU put sustainability on the agenda and how they transitioned to more sustainable products. Moreover, they talk about how Thea is driven by problem solving and in particular how to use technology to become just 1% better, 1% cheaper, or 1% faster. They talk about Thea’s personal ambition and w...

Telemedicine is a megatrend in the healthcare system and the term stretches very widely. It can start with your basic consultations with your general practitioner (GP) and increase in complexity as far as imagination goes. This week on the Sustainable Healthcare Podcast, we’re once again guested by Lasse, Senior Consultant in Green Innovation Group, who’s giving us a Telemedicine 101. We’re talkin...

What is due diligence, what are environmental, social, and governance due diligence, and why it’s important to make an ESG due diligence before purchasing an asset? Frederik and Joachim dive deep into the particulars of what to look after when doing this ESG due diligence and how to improve your business through the lens of ESG due diligence. Moreover, they walk through how to prioritize the topic...

Interoperability holds the key to the future of the healthcare system. In short, the possibility for a device to speak to and with a larger system, moreover it refers to smaller healthcare systems talking to each other – for example: how are your general practitioner speaking with your dentist who speaks with your chiropractor. Interoperability is absolutely key when talking about the healthcare s...

In this week's episode, Frederik is back in the guest seat, and Joachim and he are talking about one of Fred's kinks: Precision fermentation. In this episode, they are visiting what an API is, how fermentation plays a role in more sustainable drug production, how many pig pancreases were required to produce 0.5 kilos of insulin, and how immense the sustainability potentials of fermentation are. En...

Today Joachim and Frederik are talking about the newly proposed danish carbon tax and what carbon taxes in general means for the health care industry and how it affects your business. Why it’s a good thing that we’re finally getting a carbon tax, why this happens now, and how the tax will look in real life. --- Green Innovation Group Podcast is a podcast hosted and sponsored by Green Innovation Gr...

This week we are again gusted by Malthe Muff, co-founder of lab automation software company Inniti and in this talk we get much deeper into what the sustainability potentials of automating labs is, why Malte believes the biggest innovation potentials lies within software development. Moreover, we talk about what the biggest blocker for entering the lab 4.0 era is for most companies, why autonomous...

In this week’s episode, we’re gusted by Malte Muff, co-founder of lab automation company Inniti. We talked about how he got started with lab automation through his bachelor thesis with his co-founder, Anders. All the way through the university they had been talking about labs 4.0 with digitalization, when they looked at the labs, 4.0 was far away. So, they decided to do something about that. Liste...

In this episode, Nikoline Borgermann is back and getting more practical on how to make labs greener and more sustainable. We’re getting into how to start and what outcomes can come from this. We’re talking about if it’s even possible to decarbonize without compromising on productivity or quality. Nikoline is also arguing why it’s important to prioritize this and why sustainable labs are important....

In today's episode, we’re guested by Nikoline Borgermann who has devoted her professional life to making labs greener and more sustainable. We’re talking about how single-use plastics can be reused, how it previously was impossible to be green in a lab, why we should expand the Hippocratic oath, how minimalism helped Nikoline become greener and we discuss how many labs actually can go green in les...

Today, the founding partners of Green Innovation Group are having a chat about the mission of Green Innovation Group: reaching drawdown through decarbonizing the health care and MedTech sector. Joachim & Frederik are talking about why they chose to target these industries, how they are seeing the path to drawdown, how the landscape is evolving, and what that means for companies unwilling to ke...

In today’s episode with Luisa Santos Bay, we go deeper on the microbiome and we get clearer on how it actually can transition the health care system from sick care to preventive care. We talk about the Human Microbiome Project and what they are trying to do, about mapping the microbiome, the future of pharmaceuticals, allergic reactions, how to eat healthily according to a micro biologist and the...