Great interview with Rob Schuurman by Dave BirchNFC – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication
RS mentions NLIS schemes in Australia.
Small teams.
Home care – nurses don’t like to write or push buttons but forms have to be filled and filed for reimbursements from insurance
Developed personal ID cards for nurses and clients, touched to nurse’s Nokia to record times of start and end of service – sent to central where all other service details have been recorded prior to the visit.
Java apps
Has to be user-friendly
Contracts with 160 home care orgs who have 45k nurse employees
Working now with a physical access control to get around bunches of keys
NEDAP –
The new Health Insurance Act which came into force on 1 January 2006 abolished the former distinction between private and public health insurance. The act made it compulsory for every person residing or paying tax in the Netherlands to take out a health insurance. Every healthcare insurance company in the Netherlands, having agreed to provide services under the new Act, is obliged to accept any person who applies for insurance. People pay a nominal premium directly to the health insurer as well as an income-related contribution. The latter is levied by the Inland Revenue Service.
Under the Health Care Insurance Act, which also came into force on 1 January 2006, people may receive an allowance if the nominal premium is particularly high in relation to their income.
The Exceptional Medical Expenses Act of 14 December 1967 (implemented on 1 January 1968) – AWBZ – covers costs for the care of long-term chronic illness that are not covered by the Health Insurance Act. A basic principle of the AWBZ is that people should be helped to live at home for as long as possible. The AWBZ originally covered costly long term institutional care but the scope of the act was extended to cover other services such as home nursing in 1980 and home help in 1989. Health insurance companies are designated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to implement the AWBZ.
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