The Netherlands has recently implemented new radical costing systems in healthcare. In addition, major transformations are taking place in healthcare as a result of changing views on self-reliance and participation in relation to health. We do not want to solve problems for citizens, but rather encourage self-care and promote everyone's own resilience to achieve their own physical, social and emotional balance. Organisations face the challenge of setting up new care processes and adjusting values and professionalism of employees. The question is how, under conditions of new funding and value systems, the quality and accessibility of institutional and informal care can be promoted, for all age groups.
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This question consists of a number of sub-questions: How can self-care and informal care best be promoted?
How can technological innovations contribute to improving the quality and accessibility of care?
How should the new care be financed? The scientific challenges of this question include the development and application of evidence-based methods in many areas of care, as well as the development of new care processes, which support the transition to prevention, self-care and accessibility. There are also major scientific issues in the effective use of advanced and accessible technology in care, both in institutions and in people's homes. Societal challenges lie mainly in the area of financing care activities, and training care professionals who can handle new care processes and technology well. There are opportunities to use achievable savings to co-finance care innovation. This is also a design question for a funding model that is sustainable and effective, and supports the continuous innovation of care.
