Projects
Barneveld: the data-informed city
Since the introduction of the Social Support Act (‘Wmo’), municipalities have had a greater role in and responsibility for the health and wellbeing of their citizens. The Municipality of Barneveld wants to gain insight into the make-up of the local population and how it is changing, in order to align Read more…
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COVID-19 Projects
Since late February 2020, the Netherlands, like many other countries, has had to deal with the Coronavirus. The numbers of cases, IC patients and deaths shot up, resulting in a ‘smart lockdown’ and an overloaded healthcare system. That has had a significant impact on both healthcare and the economy. On Read more…
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Tailored Mental Healthcare – Data research for insight into mental healthcare pathways
Since 2019, ahti has been working with the City of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam (VU) and Erasmus University Rotterdam to provide insight into the pathways between the various components of the mental healthcare system in Amsterdam. When the Dutch healthcare system was reformed in 2015, the City of Amsterdam became responsible Read more…
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Right Care in the Right Place
‘Right Care in the Right Place’ is an initiative by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) that focuses on the revaluation and redesign of care processes to prevent unnecessary and unnecessarily expensive care. The initiative is centred on activities of daily living and seeks to make care Read more…
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Dolce Vita – Data-driven Optimization for a Vital Elderly Care System in the Netherlands
The current elderly care system in the Netherlands doesn’t work as well as it could. Older people sometimes experience great difficulty in obtaining prompt, adequate and appropriate care when they need it. Ahti is working with Amsterdam UMC (AMC site), the CWI (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), Read more…
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Cardiovascular Risk Management (CVRM)
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the greatest risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease. In the Netherlands, almost a third of people between 30 and 70 years old have high blood pressure. The early detection, management and treatment of hypertension (Cardiovascular Risk Management) is therefore crucial in improving public health, reducing Read more…
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City Growth
Amsterdam is growing, and is predicted to continue growing in the coming decades. The population is expected to increase from 872,000 in 2019 to 1,062,500 by 2040. The growth will influence the (future) service needs of the city’s residents. In order to respond effectively to the anticipated growth, the city Read more…
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Social Domain Insight & Control
In 2017, upwards of 60,000 Amsterdam residents made use of one or more social support services. Total annual expenditure on the social domain is around €18 billion. Data and insight have already been built up for individual domains such as Youth Services, Education and Health & Fitness. However, an integrated Read more…
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Tailored Mental Healthcare – Data research for insight into mental healthcare pathways
Since 2019, ahti has been working with the City of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam (VU) and Erasmus University Rotterdam to provide insight into the pathways between the various components of the mental healthcare system in Amsterdam. When the Dutch healthcare system was reformed in 2015, the City of Amsterdam became responsible Read more…
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NIVEL – Data research into care service use in the social and primary domains
In collaboration with the City of Amsterdam and NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), ahti is researching the extent to which use of primary care services correlates to the use of social domain care services in the City of Amsterdam. The reform of the Dutch healthcare system in 2015 Read more…
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Amsterdam Healthy Weight Program – Food Pressure
Ahti works with GGD Amsterdam, VU University and other partners on projects that help young people make healthier choices. An example is de Gezonde Coach (the Healthy Coach) in local supermarkets where high school students often go to, to grab lunch or snacks. We trained their staff, who are of a Read more…
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City Rhythm
City Rhythm aims to enhance the sense of security in a specific neighborhood by looking at how various factors relate to each other and how this can stimulate social cohesion. Together with TU Delft and Wageningen University, ahti is looking to identify rhythm in quantitative data and see how it is linked with social cohesion in a neighborhood.
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Blue Zones: preventing out-of-home care placement amongst youth
Almost 10 percent of the 140.000 children that live in Amsterdam receive a form of official youth care. In 0,8 percent of the cases, a child is placed in an out-of-home care environment. This situation is undesirable.
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H-TEAM
Every year, some 150 to 200 people in Amsterdam are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, often at an advanced stage. These ’late presentation’ cases are of specific concern as the risk to infect others is relatively high and successful treatment is difficult and costly. It is estimated that some 6 percent (~ 380 people) of all HIV infected people in the city are not yet diagnosed.
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Fieldlabs, neighbourhood healthcare in the 21st century
This project aims at innovation in health care through strengthening the education of nurses. Fieldlabs creates learning spaces in the neighbourhood to facilitate interaction between clients, patients, professionals and students. New health technologies are an important part of these interactions. Fieldlabs offers a testing area for new technologies that clients and professionals can use in the clients’ residence.