Since the beginning of this year, Niels Greidanus has joined our team as interim CEO. Who is he and what great plans does he have for CODE24 and our role in healthcare IT? Time for an interview!
"Certainly! On a personal level, I am happily married to Kim and have 4 lovely children. I love spending time with my family and enjoy travelling - Spain is currently our favourite destination. In my spare time, I like to do some coding myself as well, for example in the field of trading algorithms. I am an IT guy after all, as well as an entrepreneur, haha!
Besides that, I work out every day - usually fitness or running. I am also joining the Blue Monday Run next week, in which several colleagues of CODE24 are participating. I am looking forward to that, it is a great initiative."
“I have been active in healthcare IT since 2003 - first as founder of The Patient Safety Company, focusing on quality and risk management, and later as founder of Alterdesk and Zaurus, with a focus on communication in the form of chat and video. These companies have been sold and are now in good hands and continuing without me. I felt the time was right for a new challenge now.”
“Yes, exactly! For a while I considered doing something completely different, also because, as I said, I am very interested in trading. But as it turns out, healthcare still had plenty in store for me... I already knew Martin, Alessandro and Sebastian from the old days, when I was a supplier at the former Medisch Centrum Alkmaar. We got talking again and then my interest was quickly piqued. CODE24 is a company with enormous potential to make a powerful contribution to healthcare and be successful at it. That gets me very excited.”
“As far as I'm concerned, we are going to collaborate even more closely with our customers. How can we best support them, now and in the future? I see an important role here for the new Product Management team.
I also want to take steps to modernise mConsole, for instance by implementing SMART on openEHR, investing in the look and feel, improving the mobile app, and much more. mConsole and CareBase24 are a powerful combination. Data availability and data standardisation should underpin everything we do in healthcare IT. With CareBase24, we can become the data foundation for healthcare IT - that can become really big. I also see opportunities to make strides internationally as well. With the right focus, we can achieve a lot. I'm looking forward to it!”
“I think it is super cool to eventually see the results of what we are working towards. Seeing that the ideas I have now will bear fruit is very satisfying. There are splenty of great ingredients within CODE24: the software, an enthusiastic, skilled team... We're going to bake a cake with that now!”
“As far as I'm concerned, CODE24 has been a little too modest so far - look at all the great solutions we have that are actually used in the primary care process and the great customers we get to serve with them! As an organisation, we should definitely take pride in that.