Continue of care – do you know how to do it?

Continue of care – do you know how to do it?

Wednesday May 6, 2026 13:30 - 14:30 R17

Lecturers: Frank Fritzsche, Morten Thorkildsen

The HIMSS Nordic Community invites you to participate in a discussion on how to improve the sector process and collaboration in the healthcare systems. All Nordic countries are in the process of reshaping the landscape of health care delivery. The demographic development forces the healthcare systems to rebalance the responsibilities between primary and secondary care, giving the primary care an increasing number of task and focusing on home hospitalisation. This mega trend means that the Nordic healthcare systems are facing a major change management process.

The CCMM model is a systematic and structure tool to support for process and prioritisation and collaboration between all stakeholder in a patient’s journey across sectors and institutions in healthcare systems

Program.

· Welcome and introduction to the session. /HIMSS Nordic Community

· Introduction to the CCM model, tools, process and application Presentation of the model by Frank Fritzche

· CCM in practise, experiences from the application of the CCM model as part of the strategic development of the healthcare system in Island. How Iceland has taken on the model and what it has initiated for work forward to support continue of care in their system. Presented by Morten Thorkildsen.

· How can the Nordic healthcare systems benefit from a systematic measurement of the cross sectoral processes? A panel discussion.

Language

English

Topic

Future Health and Care

Seminar type

On Site Only

Lecture type

Presentation

Objective of lecture

Tools for implementation

Level of knowledge

Intermediate

Target audience

Management/decision makers
Organizational development

Keyword

Actual examples (good/bad)
Benefits/effects

Conference

Vitalis

Lecturers

Frank Fritzsche Lecturer

Senior Digital Health Advisor
HIMSS Europe GmbH

Frank Fritzsche is Senior Digital Health Advisor for the EMEA region based in Germany. He is responsible for conducting consulting assignments, preparing market reports, and performing validations against the HIMSS Maturity Models, as well as serving as a subject-matter expert on analytical and research questions. Frank has over 15 years of experience in healthcare-related projects, holds a master’s degree in health economics and a graduate degree in sociology and cultural studies, and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems, as well as in Digital Health Transformation Strategy.

Morten Thorkildsen Lecturer

Management Consultant, Digital Health
Morten Thorkildsen Consulting AS

Morten Thorkildsen is an independent management consultant in digital health, based in Oslo and working across the Nordics. Morten has been CEO of IBM Norway, full-time chairman of the board of shared service provider Sykehuspartner, board member of Oslo University Hospital, and chairman of the board of MBI Health (UK). Recent engagements include the Continuity of Care project for the Ministry of Health in Iceland, and digital maturity assessments of Landspitali University Hospital. Morten is the project lead for Nordic Cyber for Healthcare Forum (on behalf of DNV). Morten has also worked with digital health assignments for Central Norway Regional Health Authority. He is chairman of the board of digital innovation company Itera ASA.

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