
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.
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