Sundhed.dk International Foundation
Include the Danish health care system if you seek to export Danish health-IT solutions.
The purpose of the sundhed.dk foundation is to aid Danish companies in exporting digital solutions to other markets. We do this by making experience, knowledge, and competences, acquired through the past 30 years of work within digitalization of the healthcare system in Denmark, available to companies in commercial collaborations.
The foundation utilizes the synergy between the public and private sector. The experiences, knowledge and competences acquired through interaction between public and private operators are highly represented in the foundation and can be leveraged by all Danish companies.
Contact the foundation if you are interested in discussing opportunities and commercial terms to become part of a dialogue.
Active engagements
Sundhed.dk Foundation to host Si-Summit in Barcelona, Oct.5-7, 2023
In the context of Sundhed.dk Foundation’s mission of supporting national and international public & private healthcare organisations to develop ehealth and healthcare solutions, based on successful Danish experiences; The Foundation will be hosting a 150 person Summit in Barcelona, Oct 5-7, 2023, for mainly European healthcare C-suite executives.
The Si-Summit is the follow up to a very successful Summit held in Sitges in 2022 for 100 healthcare leaders discussing 10 shared pressing topics in a highly interactive, roundtable format. The Summit applies Chatham rules and also hosts EU Parliamentarians to ensure the findings are presented and heard at the highest political level. The Summit conclusions were summarized in a White paper that was later presented and discussed in the European Parliament alongside representatives from the European Commission.
The 2023 Si-Summit will follow up on the 2022 topics and has a limited number of opportunities for industry to participate. Please contact cdp@sundhed.dk to learn more about opportunities to sponsor and / or participate.
Dialogue with foundation applicant in the Netherlands
The foundation is in dialogue of entering into a potential collaboration with a foundation applicant in the Dutch market. The foundation is in relation to these activities supporting Netcompany, with focus on domain knowledge from the development of Sundhed.dk and national IT infrastructure.
Products and knowledge commercially available through the foundation
The following products and knowledge are commercially available through the foundation
Sundhed.dk
The central product in the foundation is the knowledge that has been acquired through 20 years in sundhed.dk. How is a national portal created? What processes must be completed to gather a healthcare system? How to build a secure national infrastructure? These are some of the questions sundhed.dk can answer, in relation to sales and services to other countries.
My health (Min Sundhed)
During the Covid-19 pandemic, ‘my health’ became one of the most downloaded apps in Denmark. With more than 6 million downloads, the app is practically in the pocket of all Danish citizens. How is a complex website like sundhed.dk transformed into an app? How to develop, manage, and maintain a national app? The knowledge acquired about these subjects in sundhed.dk can be exploited in offers to foreign customers.
Products
Sundhed.dk has a variety of independent products that can be brought into a collective deliverable. For example, Sentinel, a program for effective and secure collection of quality- and research data from primary health care. Both knowledge about the process of creating integrations to different IT-systems to a market, as well as the technical solutions available for Danish companies.
Exchange of experience and network
The foundation offers to organize a variety of activities to increase the exposure of Danish companies on the international market. This applies to common delegation trips for public and private companies to international conferences. Secure Danish solutions will play a leading role at conferences, to enhance the dialog with national and international decision makers.
Knowledge- and development resources
Through 20 years, sundhed.dk has acquired knowledge and experience that are immeasurable when it comes to practical implementation of national solutions for citizens and health care professionals. This knowledge is highly represented in sundhed.dk’s employees. Danish companies can get access to these resources, through the foundation, in relation to solutions of export tasks. Employees at sundhed.dk can be bought out in up to 20% of their time for specific tasks regarding an export task/project for a company.
Steering Committee and Management
Thomas Koefoed
Chairman of the Board
Thomas Koefoed is graduated from the Technical University of Denmark in 2007. Thomas is partner and director of the healthcare IT business unit of Netcompany A/S, consisting of more than 200 consultants.
Thomas is Chairman of the Board in the foundation, and has a large national and international network within public healthcare.
Peter Julius
Vice Chairman
Peter Julius has 20 years of experience in advising on welfare and health innovation across private and public oriented health domains. Peter is responsible for developing a range of international projects using insights from the Danish health sector as an inspirational platform for international development. The themes are the construction of Living Labs as a key tool for health and care innovation and a solid systematic knowledge within health and care innovation in general.
Peter is the founder CEO and partner of Public Intelligence – an health and care innovation company.
Claus Duedal Pedersen
CEO
Claus Duedal Pedersen has 30 years of experience in healthcare economy, business development within IT, and medtech globally. He is the head of the Sentinel Unit and the User Support at the Public Danish eHealth Portal, sundhed.dk, as well as the CEO of the sundhed.dk International Foundation since 2022.
Morten Elbæk Petersen
Member
Morten Elbæk Petersen has been the CEO of the Danish eHealth portal, sundhed.dk, since it was founded in 2003. He has more than 20 years of management experience in public administration with a primary focus on implementing eHealth, quality development, prevention and patient empowerment. The Danish eHealth portal pioneers open access to medical records, and is in this regard unique worldwide. Morten Elbæk Petersen holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Social Science from the University of Odense. He also serves as an external lecturer and examiner for Public Health IT Masters programmes at Danish universities.
In 2015, he received HIMSS Europe eHealth Leadership Award.
Stephen Alstrup
Member
Stephen Alstrup is the CEO & Co-founder of several successful start-ups currently focusing on SupWiz – a Danish award-winning SaaS that improves service and support with AI for millions of users across the globe e.g., with Chatbot, Emailbot, AI Search engine etc.
Stephen Alstrup is a world-leading Algorithms Professor and a Master of Philosophy. He is also an expert in data ethics, and part of the Expert Group that advises the Danish Data Protection Agency with respect to GDPR and privacy, as well as the co-founder of the professional data ethic council, reinforcing his commitment to ensuring ethical and responsible data practices.
James Campbell
Member
James is the CEO of Nordic Healthcare Group, the largest health and social care advisory, solutions and insights company operating in the Nordics.
James has over twenty years of leadership experience, specializing in management consulting, digital transformation, healthcare, and technology. He has held senior leadership positions at global pharmaceutical companies and is an active advisor and investor for health tech start-ups and entrepreneurs across the world. Originally from Canada, James has lived and worked internationally, and is now based in Helsinki, Finland.
Mads Hedegaard
Member
Mads Hedegaard is CEO and Owner of Edora A/S. Mads is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Analytical Skills, E-commerce, ITIL, IT Strategy, and ERP.
Edora’s history goes back in time in several ways. Partly because the name first saw the light of day in 1984 and partly because the two current owners, Rasmus Skovmark and Mads Hedegaard, already when they were children went for long walks, where they talked and strategized about how they would one day create a different IT company under the motto: “How difficult can it be”.
Today, Edora A/S employs approx. 100 employees and provides services in a wide range of areas.