Michiel Heidenrijk Managing Director

Amsterdam Institute for Health and Technology

Achieving Health Results that Matter

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Amsterdam Institute for Health and Technology

Agenda

1 Background: Proposal Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions (AMS)

2 Who we are: Amsterdam Institute for Health and Technology (AIHT)

3 Our activities

Q & A

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Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions

Health was on the agenda

Living lab

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Four key challenges facing current Health Care Systems

Healthcare is becoming unaffordable. An ever‐increasing population is accessing

healthcare and with the advent of new technologies healthcare costs are increasing exponentially around the world.

We are getting older. The world population continues to grow, while at the same time populations are ageing significantly.

Health(care) data are exploding. There is a worldwide trend toward increased generation of data on the health of individuals. However, these data are “in silos”: not

interconnected and not used efficiently to improve a person’s health nor population

health as a whole.

High hurdles to innovation. The various players in health systems do not really have either

incentives or enforcement capacity to make rapid change possible. With increasing worldwide movement towards health insurance neither patients nor doctors are directly

paying for healthcare and thus have neither incentive nor capacity to reduce costs or

create other efficiencies in the system. The insurers and governments paying the bill have relatively weak oversight and poor control mechanisms to keep healthcare consumption

at bay. Incentives to reverse this situation by facilitating the development and

implementation of innovative healthcare services are hampered by ineffective regulations that are blocking any serious attempt to change the status quo.

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Technology itself not sufficient to improve healthcare Increased spending not necessarily leading to improved quality of care

Source: The Canada Conference board on Health Spending

• Implementation of over‐precise and unnecessary

diagnostics

– Defensive medicine to avoid liability

• Tendency to provide hospital‐centric solutions vs in-home

solutions

• Emphasis on curative care instead of preventive care

• Low patient/client involvement and ownership instead of

patient empowerment

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AIHT aims to provoke a paradigm shift in thinking

about the use of technology in health care

• Away from standalone technical innovation towards

developing and integrating these innovations into new health

services that serve people and populations.

• With a strong focus on urban health, we shift the emphasis

from healthcare towards healthy living

• Where possible, move from Randomized Controlled Trials to

Real World Evidence (from efficacy to effectiveness)

The key to solving these problems lies in translating and

integrating new technologies into health(care) services.

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Consortium composition

Academic Corporate Not for profit/public

Partners UvA

VU

AMC

Vumc

HvA

UTwente

Achmea

Ahold

BCG

Danone-Nutricia

City of Amsterdam

Health(e) Foundation

Associate

Partners

23 supporting

universities

Vodafone

Life Sciences Partners (LSP)

MedSciences Capital

Management

AT5

VandeJong Amsterdam

Waag Society

Joint program coordinators AIGHD (Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development)

Duke University

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Parents institutions Implementing body

Other constituents

AIGHD Foundation

PharmAccess

Foundation

HIF

Medical

Credit Fund

KIT

AIID

(UvA, VU)

Health[e]

Foundation

IFHA

KNCV

HealthNet

TPO

SHM

Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD)

• Project portfolio € 45 million

• 69 Employees,

• 45 PhD students

• 123 articles in 2012

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AIHT offers a unique, integrated approach

Technological innovation translated

into health services and better health

Horizontal approach

Global in orientation

Multidisciplinary

Focused on urban populations

Amsterdam as a base

and ‘Living Lab’

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Entrepreneurial approach Culture of innovation and fast

implementation: A/B testing

AIHT’s core activities

Valorization

& Knowledge

Translation

Education &

training

Education & Training

Scientific

Discovery

&

Technical

Innovation

Living Lab

Education & Training

• New masters program in field of medical engineering

• Global Health research master online

• Doctoral programs (PhDs)

• Executive training / Summer schools

• Community education

Scientific Discovery & Technical Innovation

• Development of New Technology

• Application in Society

• Impact evaluation

• New research portfolio of at least 19 Million by 2018

Valorization & Knowledge Translation

• 200 direct jobs in start-up jobs by 2023

• 650-1000 direct jobs in MedTech Business Park by 2023

• Funding / capital / regulatory support

• Incubator space, Global network

• Venture Mentoring Programma

Living lab

• Point-of-care diagnostics / e-health / mobile health

• Health Miles / Active Aging

• Hospital at Home

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AIHT’s global network

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