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Healthcare of the Future

Learning Community

Sustainable healthcare

This Learning Community focuses on sustainable healthcare and interdisciplinary collaboration. This means that as part of a community, you are in contact with others. You exchange information with fellow students and provide each other with feedback. Hospitals, suppliers, and purchasing organizations also participate in the Learning Community, from whom you will receive professional feedback. Communication is important in carrying out your assignment, as is engaging others in your research and maintaining contact with various parties.

Stakeholders:

  • TU Delft 

  • Zorgservice XL 

  • various Dutch hospitals  

  • Haagse Hogeschool  

  • Hogeschool Utrecht
     

Coaches: 

  • Dr. Bart van Straten (TUD)

  • Jeroen Zoller, MSc (ZorgserviceXL)

  • Vertegenwoordigers vanuit de ziekenhuizen in de regio Zuid Holland

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Improve movement on elderly people

The Med-Tech Lab Delft establishes a unique meeting place in Delft, promoting interactions between the local population, healthcare professionals, researchers, and the municipality, focusing on movement and healthy aging to enable elderly residents to live independently at home longer.

Stakeholders:

  • TU Delft

  • Haagse Hogeschool

  • Gemeente Delft

  • Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis

  • Delft West

Coaches:

  • Dr. Bart van Trigt

  • Prof. DirkJan Veeger


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Awareness of circular hospital processes

How can awareness be positively influenced to change the emotion and connection with conventional materials and processes towards creating intrinsic motivation to introduce circular processes in the hospital?

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Design from hospital waste

Create a product design and a prototype of a medical device or packaging from the waste streams of ZXL hospitals and/or Tergooi hospital. Alternatively, redesign a product or packaging to prevent waste streams.

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Material properties of hospital waste

Which material properties apply to which hospital waste streams and what products can be made from them?

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Mapping hospital waste streams

1. What is an efficient circular process for returning waste streams from ZXL (Tergooi) to and from 7 hospital locations (GreenCycl)?

1a. How many kg per type of waste stream?

1b. Efficient organization of internal and external transport movements?

1c. What savings can be realized?

1d. What are the legal and/or financial obstacles?

Learning Community

Bewegen in de wijk

The Med-Tech Lab Delft establishes a unique meeting place in Delft, promoting interactions between the local population, healthcare professionals, researchers, and the municipality, focusing on movement and healthy aging to enable elderly residents to live independently at home longer.

Stakeholders:

  • TU Delft

  • Haagse Hogeschool

  • Gemeente Delft

  • Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis

  • Delft West

Coaches:

  • Dr. Bart van Trigt

  • Prof. DirkJan Veeger

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