Faces Of Digital Health

This episode explores how Denmark’s 2024 health reform is accelerating an already mature digital health ecosystem, with a special focus on Copenhagen’s municipality-led elderly and community care services. Speakers Anders Elken Sønderby and Rikke Saltoft Andersen from City of Copenhagen, explain how the reform responds to demographic pressures: a growing elderly population, increasing chronic disease burden, and workforce shortages. Rather than representing a radical shift, the reform acts as an acceleration layer on top of long-established digital health infrastructure. The discussion dives into how municipalities support home care, nursing, rehabilitation, prevention, and care homes, all digitally connected with hospitals and general practitioners through Denmark’s long-standing MedCom interoperability framework. A strong emphasis is placed on care continuity, ensuring data follows citizens across hospitals, care homes, and home-based services. A standout theme is Copenhagen’s effort to include relatives