About the members of the Health Mission’s partner board

Jacob Høy Berthelsen represents an ecosystem of smaller health technology companies. He contributes experience from companies that have already developed solutions but often face significant barriers to entering the healthcare system. His focus is on ensuring that existing innovations are brought into use and translated into tangible value in practice.

Klaus Larsen has 30 years of experience within the healthcare sector and a professional background in technology. He focuses on the dual demographic pressures, workforce shortages and broader societal challenges facing healthcare today – and, in particular, on the role of technology in addressing these issues. His ambition is to contribute to a better healthcare system for citizens through technology and, especially, through increased use of health data collected over the past 50 years but still largely underutilised.

Karen Ingerslev represents Social Sundhed, an NGO with a unique role as a healthcare actor. She brings focus to the often invisible healthcare work carried out by relatives and civil society, as well as to the need for solutions that also reach the most vulnerable citizens who are not members of patient organisations. In addition, she highlights the use of data to identify citizens who do not make use of referrals or attend screenings, as this group often includes those with the most serious health needs.

Karen Skjerbæk Jørgensen holds a degree in Information Science and has 20–25 years of experience working at the intersection of people and technology, including 15 years with a particular focus on health technology.

She is concerned with how technology influences behaviour and how new possibilities can generate new needs. She has extensive experience with the challenges of translating innovation into practice, including pilot projects that fail to scale and solutions that are implemented but not used.

In the partner board, she contributes expertise on responsible technology and on how innovation can be deployed in ways that create value without generating additional needs that do not benefit vulnerable groups.

Morten Freil focuses on patients and relatives, and on how to ensure that new solutions genuinely benefit patients. This requires involving patients from the outset - not as test subjects, but as co-creators who help define needs and priorities. His work emphasises trust, ethics, transparency, quality and coherence, as well as partnerships between public and private actors, civil society, patient organisations and universities to develop methods that place patients’ needs at the centre of new solutions.

Lars Hulbæk has 28 years of experience in the field and has strong confidence in the synergy between universities and digital health in Denmark. He sees a clear need to evaluate initiatives that are already underway, rather than focusing exclusively on new solutions. He emphasises the importance of learning from evaluations, users, clinicians, industry and researchers, and of recognising that general practitioners and the wider primary care sector are a central part of the equation.

Morten Lindblad holds an MSc in Economics from Aalborg University and has 10 years of experience in the public sector. Today, he is a co-owner of 25 companies spanning areas such as satellite technology, CO2-negative fuels, medtech and exoskeletons. The common denominator is technology that must be sufficiently user-friendly to ensure real-world adoption. He aims to contribute by fostering new companies, strengthening links with industry, and helping to optimise treatment pathways in general practice.

Stinus Lindgreen has a background as a computer scientist and researcher, holding a PhD in biostatistics. Before entering Parliament, he worked for many years in the private sector with healthcare and health data. In the development of the healthcare system, he is particularly concerned with bringing healthcare closer to citizens and improving the implementation of new technologies. He contributes to the Health Mission’s partner board with political insight into the challenges facing the healthcare sector, including the role of health councils and how regions and municipalities can be more closely integrated. A key objective is to receive input to help identify problems and remove unintended regulatory barriers.