My name is Jason Pettiaux, I am biomedical engineer from Belgium, who believes that healthcare is primarily about relationships.
I worked in Medical Device development, on the whole value chain, from scientific validation to IP, Grants writing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Regulatory Strategy, Verification & Validation, Quality Assurance, Fundraising, …
After that I worked in digital health and met with all the other stakeholders of healthcare: insurances, hospital manager, IT managers, mutualities, Pharma executives, MedTech executives medical software executives as well as a ton of facilitators in the field.
Overall, I’m passionate about building a sustainable future specifically in healthcare.
I’m also a Maker passionate about fablab/makerspaces networks.
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I realised that many innovations today get stuck because the innovators don’t understand the complexity of the system they get into.
I got the chance to meet and discover the challenges of many of them and I now want to share that understanding with others.
However, every digital health product is different and it’s tough to analyse them (I realised that while working with an investment fund specialised in digital health.
To answer these challenges I created the Stakeholder Mapping for healthcare.
<aside> ℹ️ Use this tool as a guide to build, navigate, complement, analyse your offering & the reaction of everyone impacted by it.
Stakeholder Mapping for healthcare
If you need my help, to do it, feel free to book some time in my calendar.
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The definition of digital health is fuzzy and often overlaps with other categories in : drug development, MedTech, hospital productivity, …
So I crafted mine:
<aside> ℹ️ Digital health covers any product active in the digital transformation of healthcare. Digital transformation is about changing practices, habits & processes.
<aside> ⚠️ Radiology diagnostic easily not fall out of this category despite being medical software as a medical device.
Indeed, they often change very little in the diagnostics processes, they make it much more efficient and often of better quality but simply require the radiologist to look at his computer and use one more tool to provide an analysis to his colleagues or patients.
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Here are some commonly accepted categories in digital health.
My opinion is that these are too broad so I suggest approaching it with the definition here above.