Our western healthcare systems are facing tremendous challenges. First of all, patient numbers continue to grow. Europe’s old-age dependency ratio (people +65 years old relative to those aged 15-64) is expected to increase from about 30% in 2016 to over 51% in 2070 (1). Secondly, we have better, more personalised, targeted therapies but those come...
Hirslanden Private Hospital Group offers versatile healthcare services in its 17 hospitals in Switzerland. They have adopted Kaiku Health digital patient monitoring platform to improve treatment quality and patient safety.
Kaiku Health stores and processes the personal health information of patients, so data privacy has been a top priority for us since day one. Finnish data privacy laws have always been fairly strict and comprehensive, especially regarding medical records. Therefore, as the EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation becomes enforceable on May 25th, we will be...
This is a guest blog by Taneli Hirvola (M. Sc.), Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group. He is a Core member of BCG’s Healthcare Practice in the Nordics, and works with leading Healthcare providers, MedTech suppliers and Pharma companies on e.g. Oncolology and Value-Based Healthcare topics. Most healthcare systems are poor at measuring value...
The concept of patient experience has gathered widespread interest in recent years, and is being increasingly identified as one of the three pillars of healthcare quality along with clinical effectiveness and patient safety. However, it can be daunting for clinical professionals and decision-makers to start systematically improving patient experience.