About the Health Mission
The healthcare system of the future must offer more coherent and personalized care pathways that provide patients with better support in managing their illness. This requires a joint effort to rethink collaboration and develop technological solutions that bring professional groups and sectors closer together.
Contact usAbout the Health Mission
The healthcare system of the future must offer more coherent and personalized care pathways that provide patients with better support in managing their illness. This requires a joint effort to rethink collaboration and develop technological solutions that bring professional groups and sectors closer together.
Contact usAlthough Denmark has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, there is still room for improvement.
Patients and their relatives often experience treatment taking place in separate 'silos,' where different parts of the healthcare system do not communicate with each other and where care does not start from the patient’s unique situation. Communication is another challenge when important information needs to be shared between primary care and hospitals, between hospitals and municipalities, internally within hospitals, and not least between patients and their relatives.
When treatment is not tailored to the individual and lacks coherence across the healthcare system, some patients may be overdiagnosed and overtreated, while others are underdiagnosed and undertreated.
The consequences can be significant for patients, their families, and society— especially for patients with multiple conditions and those with chronic pain. These two patient groups are growing as the population ages.
The healthcare system of the future must offer integrated care pathways that start from individual needs. We need to rethink how patients can be supported to better manage their illness. We must develop and use technological solutions across disciplines and sectors.
The Health Mission aims to improve the health of Danes through better coherence and greater individualization in care pathways across primary and specialized healthcare.
To achieve this mission, researchers, healthcare professionals, municipalities, regions, and patients must join forces in partnerships to find solutions together.
Challenges in the healthcare sector – and ideas for action:
We have identified key challenges that must be solved collectively across research, practice, and society. These challenges are based on input from workshops and a participant survey, where stakeholders from across the healthcare sector contributed experiences and ideas.
- Care pathways are often fragmented
- Untapped potential for personalized treatment
- Self-care requires support
- Data is used without common standards and ethics
- Good ideas are not implemented
- Lack of knowledge about digital health tools
- Vulnerable groups are overlooked
- Cross-sector collaboration works poorly
- Digital health twins
We are now ready to tackle the challenges faced by the healthcare system and patients. With digital technologies, we create better care pathways — by supporting greater coherence across sectors, personalized treatment, and a focus on helping patients manage chronic conditions.
