NijFinster Distance Care

In this article I describe some recent e-Health related projects, executed by the Dutch specialised company NijFinster. This is a hundred percent daughter company of Kabel Noord, a regional cable operator in the north of the Netherlands.

'Distance Care' at home care organisation Friese Land.

This is a project currently running. More than a 100 home care clients are connected to a video communication system. The newest generation of video phones is much more user friendly and a lot easier to configure and install. Better still, the system is cheaper than alternative systems presntly used in the Netherlands.

CEO Anja Paap: "With our well developed project concept, supplemented with our current technology and partners, we can serve any organisation quickly and at relatively low cost."

Business developer Gijs van Hesteren says: "We are very proud that we were able to implement this system so cost effectively - for ourselves as well as for the home care organisation concerned. Low cost is very important, especially for the target group. We have worked hard to acquire sufficient funding from innovation funds."

NijFinster video phone project

In this project, clients are connected to the Friese Land Health Care Center. This is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A follow up project is being set up.

Distance Care, enabled by interactive video communication, is gaining momentum in Friesland and in the Netherlands. Health organisations try to assist their clients more efficiently and more frequently.

Virtual polyclinic Wadden Islands

Medical specialst Hilde Royen discusses online with a patient and his island doctor

Patients on the remote coastal island Ameland contact a medical specialst in the regional hospital Sionsberg. Nominated for the Spider Award 2009 of the magazine ICTzorg. Eventually awarded a remarkable shared second place. From the jury report: "(...) innovative use of videoconferencing for direct interaction between medical specialist and patient. Anamnesis and diagnosis are investigated. That shows some guts."

This project was executed at instigation by the Frisian Cartesius Instituteand in co-operation with the Pasana-Sionsberg hospital in Dokkum en general practitioners on the Ameland island.

Second place Spider Award 2009

NijFinster executed project management, consultancy, technology advice, installation of hardware.

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