First EFIC® Symposium Societal Impact of Pain - SIP

Jacob Hofdijk
Drs. Jacob Hofdijk
Implementation of Integrated Funding Chronic
Disease (Dutch ministry of health)
President EFMI
Partner in Casemix
Jacob trained at the Rijks Universiteit
Groningen (1974) in Doctoral Business
Economics mainly focussing on systems
approach and informatics. In May 1974 he
started his career in Health Care at the
University Hospital Leiden with the
development of the BAZIS Integrated Hospital
Information System. He played a role in
bridging between hospital management,
clinicians and service departments with IT
developers. In 1979 he became project
manager of the first DRG project in the
Netherlands. This was the start of his
involvement in the paradigm shift of health
care management. Together with Prof JM.
Rodrigues, he started the International
Network for Patient Classification Systems
(PCSE), which is still the only international
network for health care management strategy
based on Casemix tools.
Since 1990 he has been a member of the EFMI
council and board. He has served from 2008-
2010 as president of this federation.
In 2005 he left HISCOM to be more active in
the world of Casemix in the Netherlands, as a
partner in Casemix, as a consultant at the
Ministry of health and special advisor of the
Dutch Casemix office (DBC Onderhoud). Since
2006 he has become involved in the
application of Casemix tools on chronic disease
management for diabetes care to support the
ZonMW experiment.
At the Dutch Casemix organization he played
an important role in the design of the second
version of the DBC system "DOT". At the
beginning of 2009 he left DBC Onderhoud to
join the project team of the introduction of the
integrated funding system at the Ministry of
Health. In this position he is active in creating
a base for supporting IT solutions for
integrated health care delivery based on care
standards. Annex to the care standards are
common agreed obligatory parameters
(modelled as Detailed Clinical Models) and
system requirements for integrated care
systems.
Since 2006 he has been involved in a study of
the Ministry of Health and CF centres to
improve the integrated care for cystic fibrosis
patients. The study of all costs of this rare
disease has resulted in a model for integrated
funding, which will be tested soon.
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