English
Partner
Philips HTS Russia
Program manager improving health care reform Russian hospitals.
Paul Epping, MSc is Healthcare Business Strategist at Philips, Healthcare Transformation Services; CEO at Epping Consultancy BV; Member at Zorg Innovatie Forum; and Founder of STIPOIZ.
Paul studied nursing, social pedagogy, didactics, philosophy, and information science. He was a lecturer for over 12 years at the University of Leiden in nursing informatics, information management, and philosophy of science. He is an entrepreneur, consultant, interim manager, program manager, and expert in HIS / EMR since 2000.
Standards, both care-related (such as care pathways) and technical (such as CCR / CCD), are his main focus and he shares his knowledge in them with a large network. He has also been a chairman of the NEN standards committees “messaging” and “information models”.
He proudly calls himself alumnus of Singularity University and is a member of the World Futurist Society. In addition to all professional activities, he is an “Out of the box” thinker and trend watcher — especially of exponentially accelerating technology. Innovation is the common thread of his professional career.
Paul earned his MSc in Social Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1985. He studied Information Science/Studies at the University of Groningen and graduated from Singularity University in 2011. He earned a Certificate in Strategic and Practical Forecasting Methods from Academy SZW in 2014.
Impact of exponential technology on health care. Change of mindsets is needed
This talk will cover new technologies that will change all kinds of organizations and in general, our society. The focus of the presentation will be on the health care environment because this is one of the ereas where technology, and specifically IT, is needed to slow down the ongoing increase of expenses for treatments. A step further will help to understand the audience that the developments are going very fast. In this case the audience will get an insight in what exponential technology and exponential medicine means. Driver beyond these exponentials is Information Technology.
