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How to do more with less in healthcare

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Jan Denecker |

TED@UPS

• September 2016

As medicine advances, so does the complexity and price of healthcare. For inspiration on ways to keep healthcare affordable, Jan Denecker shares three simple, yet effective innovations from the developing world, where constraints on resources have caused the healthcare industry to adopt a mentality of doing more with less.

As medicine advances, so does the complexity and price of healthcare. For inspiration on ways to keep healthcare affordable, Jan Denecker shares three simple, yet effective innovations from the developing world, where constraints on resources have caused the healthcare industry to adopt a mentality of doing more with less.

About the speaker

Jan Denecker

Jan Denecker

Healthcare strategist

As the director of healthcare marketing and strategy for UPS, Jan Denecker executes healthcare strategy in Europe. He finds new ways to help healthcare companies cope with the medical industry’s growing need for agile and flexible supply chains. Prior to joining UPS in 2011, Denecker worked in the healthcare industry for more than 10 years, where he focused on marketing and global supply chains.

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