Inside Healthcare – Episode 3: Mark van Dijk (KPN Health) on regional collaboration and shared care in Midden-Holland

About this episode (in Dutch 🇳🇱)

In this episode, we speak with Mark van Dijk of KPN Health about the collaboration within the Midden-Holland region and what it takes to enable effective regional care networks. The conversation explores how multiple care organizations, social domain partners, and IT stakeholders work together to improve data availability and collaboration across the care continuum.

The interview provides a practical perspective on how regional initiatives move beyond isolated integrations towards scalable, shared infrastructures that support care delivery across organizational boundaries.

Regional collaboration as the backbone of networked care

Healthcare increasingly depends on collaboration across organizations, disciplines, and domains. In the Midden-Holland region, multiple parties joined forces to enable better data exchange and availability through a shared infrastructure approach.

This regional collaboration enables use cases such as:

• eOverdracht and cross-organization care transitions

• Proactive care planning and coordinated care pathways

• Mental health network collaboration

• Acute care coordination across providers

By aligning stakeholders around shared data foundations, the region moves toward true networked care rather than fragmented point-to-point integrations.

From data exchange to data availability

A key theme in the discussion is the shift from simple data exchange to real data availability. Instead of only sending information between systems, the goal is to make relevant data accessible and usable across care settings, while professionals continue working within their own source systems.

This approach reduces administrative burden and supports better-informed clinical decisions, while maintaining control, trust, and governance across organizations.

Lessons for regional healthcare innovation

The interview highlights that successful regional collaboration requires more than technology alone. It depends on governance models, trust frameworks, and a shared vision on how data should flow between organizations.

Key insights include:

• Regional cooperation is essential to scale digital health initiatives

• Shared infrastructure enables faster rollout of new use cases

• Interoperability must support both care and social domain collaboration

• Sustainable innovation requires alignment between policy, IT, and care workflows

Building toward a nationally connected care network

Regional initiatives like the one in Midden-Holland contribute to broader ambitions for nationwide data availability and connected care. By standardizing data access and collaboration models regionally, healthcare systems can gradually build toward scalable, interoperable networks that benefit professionals and patients alike.

Watch the full interview

Watch the full conversation with Mark van Dijk to learn how regional collaboration initiatives translate into practical implementations that improve data availability and coordinated care delivery.

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