Presenting the experiences of her company at the eHealth 2008 meeting in Slovenia, Rolien de Jong, innovations manager at The Hague-based Meavita Healthcare, pointed out that, to make the breakthrough, it’s the providers who are taking the risk – not once, not twice, “but again, and again, and again”.
Interesting comments from one of the few European health provider organisations to try to scale up a broadband-based telehealth and telecare system to a large number of patients. Read the whole item here.
What she doesn’t say is that Meavita passed on its risk, which resulted in its technology provider, Impact Valley, being wound up last summer. Which was a huge pity, considering how good its innovative product was.