(Photo by Fleur Beemster | left to right: John Kroon (Swymed) – SG Erik Gerritsen (Min. of Health, Welfare & Sport )

World of Health Care 2018 (WoHC) visitors voted Swymed as the winner of the Smart Solutions Award in the RDM Submarine Wharf, Rotterdam. As one of many exhibitors Swymed presented their DOT Telemedicine Backpack to over 600 healthcare professionals, including 100 international high-level decision makers. Swymed’s 
Smart Solutions tackle shared challenges to modernise, optimise and increase the quality, affordability and accessibility of healthcare.

On the mainstage Secretary General of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport Erik Gerritsen presented the Award  the World of Health Care Voucher 2018, to join a Task Force Health Care international trade mission of choice.  John Kroon (VP Swymed EMEA) explains: ”Our backpack, world’s first truly mobile telemedicine solution for Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH), is powered by swyMed’s patented smart software. It includes everything needed for a reliable, exceptional-quality video telemedicine encounter, it takes telemedicine to a new frontier with a plug-and-play backpack that for the first time enables real-time video telemedicine in truly mobile environments.  The DOT Telemedicine Backpack is light, easy to use, and delivers unparalleled connectivity. Our Smart Solutions gives mobile care providers the ability to connect to doctors for real-time video medicine –anywhere, any time – truly a “Doc-on-Tap.”

The world of healthcare interventions is in constant flux – new and emerging infectious diseases, changing disease patterns, demographic changes, rising costs of health care; all of which add complexity to the already considerable challenges. At the same time, innovative answers to these challenges have emerged in the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector. Highly driven by meaningful innovation Swymed provides smart solutions which tackle shared challenges to modernise, optimise and increase the quality, affordability and accessibility of healthcare.

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Time-critical mobile telemedicine consults require simple, fast and highly reliable connections. While many solutions fail beyond the hard-wired four walls of a hospital, swyMed’s patent-pending technology expands telemedicine care to places where it was previously unavailable, powering truly mobile exceptional-quality live video encounters, even at the lowest bandwidths. swyMed’s proven, reliable, easy-to-use solutions including the DOT Telemedicine Backpack, give care providers the ability to connect to doctors for real-time video telemedicine — anytime, anywhere. swyMed’s innovative technology is used by providers for home health, EMS/critical transport, telestroke and Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) programs in thousands of encounters throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Read more…

World of Health Care 2018

The congresstival World of Health Care marked the annual highlight for the Dutch life sciences & health sector. Around 600 key stakeholders consisting of industry, knowledge institutes, NGO’s, healthcare providers and the government were connected to 100+ high level decision makers in international health from Brazil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Kenya, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States of America.