Reflections from a Patient’s Perspective
A new year, 2026, begins — personally marked by 10 days of interaction during and beyond the Christmas holidays as both an inpatient and an outpatient at Bispebjerg Hospital, something I had neither foreseen nor planned.
Throughout those 10 days, I interacted with seven different hospital departments. For me, the hospital’s flexibility in accommodating my already scheduled business meetings on a day-by-day basis, combined with being welcomed and cared for by a dedicated nurse in each of the seven departments — all with full overview of my care pathway — ensured seamless information flow, efficient coordination, and reduced time spent at the hospital. This helped me tremendously during an otherwise very busy end-of-year period at M2Call.
With a background spanning many years in both political work and company operations, including collaboration across the European healthcare system, my experience and assessment of the Danish healthcare system is that it ranks among the top two in Europe. Only the Swiss healthcare system operates at a comparable level.
A big thank you to Bispebjerg Hospital for your understanding and support — especially to the nursing teams. And to the management team: please remember to communicate to your staff that they are operating in the top league in Europe. They deserve to know.
As we enter 2026, and based on the signals and conversations I have had with hospital partners and policymakers over the past few months, two key trends are likely to define the focus of the healthcare system over the next 12 months:
➡️ 2026 will mark a shift toward broader adoption of patient monitoring solutions, helping to mitigate the ongoing challenges caused by the shortage of nursing resources.
➡️ 2026 will also require an even stronger focus on patient safety, particularly in patient management across both hospital and homecare settings.
The rapidly evolving health-tech landscape — now including new MDR-compliant AI patient monitoring solutions such as Migo — will support hospital management teams in making the necessary decisions to effectively implement innovative solutions addressing these challenges.
However, ensuring broad and timely access to innovative patient monitoring solutions across hospital and homecare settings also places demands on political frameworks, strategic focus, and budget allocation.
In Denmark, recognition of AI solutions is growing. During the Christmas holidays, the Danish Minister for Healthcare stated that local municipalities — which are responsible for elderly care — need to investigate the use of AI-based monitoring solutions to improve safety in nursing homes.
We need the same political approach for patient monitoring across both hospitals and homecare — not only from the Ministry of Health, but also across the four Danish regions.
In today’s evolving and sometimes challenging healthcare environment, the future belongs to those who can adapt their approach to enable innovation at scale. In supporting policymakers and hospital management teams in doing so in 2026, we at M2Call, with the only MDR-compliant AI patient monitoring solution in Europe, are ready for that dialogue.
