Almost 13 years ago I gave a presentation in Amsterdam, with a plea for faster adoption of (mobile health) technology and innovation in healthcare. That adoption was much needed because of an urgency we had to cope with at that time: Increasing ↗️↗️↗️ ↗️ People of high age and people with chronic…

I enjoyed participating at Zoomtopia last week, a two-day hybrid experience hosted on the Zoom Events platform. My main take away was that Zoom (video conferencing) is entering Slack-territory by adding team-collaboration tools like team-email, calendar, chat, whiteboards, huddles … euh, I mean ‘spots’. Comes as no surprise as Slack…

This is -without any doubt- the hardest article I have ever written. The objective was a simple, short and insightful article about the Metaverse in healthcare. But it’s super complex because of novel technologies, the new possibilities that arise from the interactions between those novel technologies, and the tremendous pace…

Tuesday, December 31 I’ll be turning a page, quite a big one actually, a page containing 25 years where I served as the owner and managing director of Huis Vandecruys, a carehome named after my mother. …

I recently was approached by a company interested if there was any development on a concept I described in a blogpost in 2017. Hereby a +/- transcript of the discussion with that company. What exactly do you mean with ‘smart earphones’? Smart earphones have been called ‘Hearables’. It was Nick Hunn who coined the term in 2014. Similar…

Why has Gutenberg’s printing press had such an enormous impact? Not just because of the technology to forge (metal) letter shapes and then print them on paper. After all, similar technology had already been used in China and Korea a few centuries earlier. No, the success is mainly due to…

Seems like yesterday, the delivery in April 2013 of the (now defunct) Pebble, the Kickstarter Edition (ordered in May 2012). As far as I know, the first smartwatch aimed directly at consumers. Although the possibilities were very limited, this smartwatch allowed you to experience what it felt like to wear…

“That is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard!” After this statement, it was very quiet in the meeting room for a moment. But soon one participant after another started to put forward positive arguments about the proposal. Hesitant at first, but gradually more enthusiastic and gradually ending in euphoria. Again…

It makes me sad! Tens of thousands of euros spent on separate innovation departments (or ‘Digital Departments’ or ‘Chief Digital Officers’). I’m sure you’re aware of some of them. Initiatives like this that have an office somewhere on a campus, staffed by evangelists, from where the organisation will be entirely…