Use innovation as your compass!
Healthcare is at a tipping point. We are seeing increasingly complex patients, and workloads and healthcare costs are rising. At the same time, we bear responsibility for sustainability: what we do has an impact on both people and the environment. Therefore, we must make choices – and provide better justification for them. This is what Professor of Anesthesiology Denise Veelo says in her inaugural lecture.
Innovation offers opportunities. Artificial intelligence, precision medicine, and digital tools help us make healthcare more personalized and smarter. But innovation doesn't automatically mean doing more. It helps us determine where to invest, where to be cautious, and when to honestly acknowledge that a treatment no longer adds value.
Veelo's mission is to use research and technology to guide these choices in perioperative care: acting smarter where necessary, doing less where possible, and sometimes consciously not doing anything. With science and a moral compass, we build appropriate choices – for today's patients and tomorrow's society.