Digital Health Can Allow A Health System Transformation Done Right It Seems.

This appeared last week:Why Denmark is reducing hospitals while we are building moreJill MargoUpdated Feb 19, 2019 — 3.48pm, first published at 3.03pmDenmark has become a world leader in healthcare because, long before others, it realised the existing model was broken.While other countries have been responding to growing demand by building more hospitals along traditional lines, the Danes have been reducing th em.In 1999, Denmark had 98 hospitals. Today it has 32."About 15 years ago, we realised the solution to these problems is not more hospitals but to think about how we can deliver healthcare in a different way," says Hans Erik Henriksen, CEO of Healthcare DENMARK. Janie BarrettThe Australian Financial Review Healthcare Summit in Sydney was told on Tuesday that against some domestic opposition, the Danish health system was radically transformed to make it financially sustainable for the multiple challenges ahead.All first-world countries are facing the same challenges from an... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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