Two new experienced professionals, Senior Managers Helena Henno and Outi Isomeri joined Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) in August. A warm welcome! Helena Henno holds two Masters degrees: one in health and biotechnology and the other in industrial engineering with focus on strategy and leadership. Previously, she worked at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as…

The importance and potential benefits of introducing patient reported measures (PRMs) into health care service have been widely acknowledged, yet the experience regarding their implementation into practice is limited. A new study, published on July 3th in BMC Health Services Research, aims to elicit Finnish professionals’ views on PRMs and to explore the applicability of…

  The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a big leap towards value-based healthcare as they started a national stroke patient pathway pilot involving 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke care. A visual dashboard was built to display results and enable benchmarking between the hospitals. What information does the dashboard display?…