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​AptaVivar is the initiative to make healthcare technology, such as eHealth in all its forms, truly suitable for practical application. Not driven by the “possibilities”—which certainly exist—but by the outcomes as experienced by the client or patient.

 

It is about learning how to use technological innovations in a meaningful and human-centered way.

 

My personal approach is the result of many years of hands-on experience in projects for healthcare and welfare organizations, governments, and partnerships. Innovation starts with your own intrinsic motivation and social commitment. Creating room to learn is the means to jointly strengthen the well-being, self-reliance, autonomy, recovery, and participation of vulnerable people through new possibilities.

 

On that journey, I needed a few personal experiences to find the right direction.

 

The first experience was my second trip to Peru in 2009. In the village of Yanque, deep in the Colca Valley, a nurse was only available on Wednesday afternoons. At other times, people depended on care in Arequipa, about a four-hour journey away. How powerful it would have been to apply what was then called “remote care.” It reinforced my mission to make innovations suitable for everyday life, and I started my own company.

The second experience was caring for my parents, especially my mother. From June 2005 to January 2016, I built up lived experience together with her. Everything I had learned and applied daily in business management, quality, and technology suddenly gained deep personal meaning. I came to better understand what care outcomes are and what care value-creation really means. During that time, I discovered the philosophy of Joris Slaets—positive well-being—and successfully applied it both for my mother and in my work for In voor zorg!

 

The third experience was discovering solution-focused practice. I first encountered it as Brief Solution-Focused Therapy (BSFT) through social workers at De Kern in the municipality of Dalfsen. This approach resonated well with the municipality’s Try-out Service project, for which I was the project leader. I wanted to learn more, and over the past years I got that opportunity at Aveleijn in Twente. They have been working for years with solution-focused methods introduced by Louis Cauffman, which made it easy to expand its use in the context of healthcare innovation, particularly eHealth.

Together with all my other work experience, this led me to design methods within Demand-Driven Adoption of Healthcare Innovation with eHealth (VAZER), using solution-focused practice as the flavor enhancer of healthcare innovation.

 

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​​Photo: Village square of Yanque, my mother, and (symbolically) a creative solution (“Self-portrait of a Dreamer”).

 

Empowering people, strengthening their social networks, and ensuring easy access to care—these are the foundations for living life in a suitable and dignified way. Interaction, observation, and action through conceptualization, combined with adoption through motivation and knowledge, is my preferred approach to success.

 

In daily life, I put this into practice in all my work.

 

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