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For this article I spoke with Co Politiek , who together with Remco Hoogendijk initiated the book. Co has been active in healthcare as a program manager and advisor in recent years. With regard to innovation, for example, he once worked on a health insurance card (smart card) pilot and EDI initiatives in the 90s. More recently, in 2008, he was responsible as a program manager for the transformation of asylum seeker care (including the implementation of a national central HIS/EPD).
He came up with the idea to work on a book together with his LinkedIn network in the shower in early 2012. the year and on October 4, the book was published in digital form. “Making the book took more time than I thought. I have been working on it from the beginning of March until now. At first mainly in the philippines phone data weekends and evenings and from September 1 full-time.” The book started as a LinkedIn group where people could share a healthcare innovation.
“A website was added fairly quickly, because it is easier to share comments on a website,” says Co. “Ultimately, the website became an important part of the book. Instead of including all contributions in the book, we wrote down the main lines and themes in the book and included references to all ideas on the website. Initially, the idea was to also let people vote and choose winners, but we abandoned choosing winners. In the end, it is about the content of the ideas.”
He came up with the idea to work on a book together with his LinkedIn network in the shower in early 2012. the year and on October 4, the book was published in digital form. “Making the book took more time than I thought. I have been working on it from the beginning of March until now. At first mainly in the philippines phone data weekends and evenings and from September 1 full-time.” The book started as a LinkedIn group where people could share a healthcare innovation.
“A website was added fairly quickly, because it is easier to share comments on a website,” says Co. “Ultimately, the website became an important part of the book. Instead of including all contributions in the book, we wrote down the main lines and themes in the book and included references to all ideas on the website. Initially, the idea was to also let people vote and choose winners, but we abandoned choosing winners. In the end, it is about the content of the ideas.”