Leonard Witkamp, MD

Dr Leonard Witkamp is a dermatologist and director KSYOS TeleMedical Centre, the first virtual hospital in The Netherlands.

He founded the KSYOS organisation three years ago. KSYOS develops TeleMedicine services that may add to increase efficiency of the primary healthcare process. With the use of the Health Management Practice model, KSYOS investigates the efficiency increasing potential of this TeleMedicine services in cooperation with future users, thereby creating broad basic support.

 KSYOS subsequently takes care of the implementation and operation of the TeleMedicine services in regular healthcare. KSYOS works together with industry and producers, a large network of healthcare workers, decision makers and heath insurance companies. Leonard Witkamp’s experience as research fellow in market research, as university researcher and as practising dermatologist is an excellent base for helping the KSYOS organisation to reach it’s mission: maintaining accessibility of the healthcare system for the general population by efficiency increase.

The flagship of KSYOS is TeleDermatology with 20.000 TeleConsultations performed so far in The Netherlands by 2000 general practitioners and 142 dermatologists.