NLS Profiles in MedTech

Elekta’s President and CEO, Richard Hausmann, has been recognized as the “Best MedTech CEO” by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global health and medical technology market. Richard Hausmann has taken bold steps to transform radiation oncology, states the jury. One of these was the successful […]

Ironically, there is less serendipity in the success Saeid Esmaeilzadeh and Ashkan Pouya have achieved as business-makers than there is traditional hard work. The two long-time friends, who came to Sweden with their families as children after fleeing Iran, co-founded Serendipity Innovations, a company that develops businesses with innovative technologies that provide practical solutions.  After […]

He has been sundhed.dk’s anchorman from the very beginning, 14 years ago. Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO of the Danish eHealth portal, talks about the success story behind Europe’s largest patient portal, patient empowerment and his passion for preventive healthcare and democracy. The initiative to establish the eHealth portal, sundhed.dk, was taken by the Association of County Councils in […]

Habib Frost, MD, could not get over the helplessness he felt as a young emergency medicine intern in Denmark seeing two young people die in the same day from cardiac arrest, despite having access to skilled providers and the latest technology. “I knew that I wanted to do something about this, but I did not […]

Many people early on saw the enormous communications capabilities of the Internet, but Swedish digital platform pioneer Anna Omstedt Lindgren recognized the ability to link not just individuals but groups and create communities that transcend borders. During her 15-year career, Omstedt Lindgren has started unique web sites and helped companies move to digital platforms. Six […]