About Me
Wim H. van Harten graduated as M.D. and specialized in tropical medicine. On returning from Africa he focused on public health and health administration. He obtained a degree in community medicine/public and worked Chief Medical Advisor of a major health insurance company (1986-1992). Thereafter worked as CEO at t the rehabilitation hospital “Het Roessingh” in Enschede and as member of the Executive Board of the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL). I Since 2015 he is CEO at Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem. From 2005 onwards he was appointed as Research Group leader at the Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology at the NKI.
Since 2001 he is part-time professor on “Quality Management and Health Care Technology” at the department of Health Technology and Services Research of the School of Management and Governance. So far, he supervised over 20 Ph.D graduations and presently his group consists of 1 postdoc and 5 PhD students in the NKI and 5 in other universities. He published over 200 peer reviewed papers on health services and quality management, especially Health Technology Assessment, E-health and Process improvement.
He served as President of the OECI from 2011-2014, presently as Chair OECI Working Group on Health Economics and member of the OECI Cancer Center Accreditation and Designation Board. From 2008 – 2014 he served as Board member of the Netherlands Hospital Association with the portfolio of innovation, drug costs and quality issues.
From 2015 he is CEO of Rijnstate (general) Hospital in Arnhem, a large teaching hospital with an annual expenditure of € 600 million and around 5500 employees, of whom around 300 medical specialists and 110 MDs in specialist training. He is Chair of mProve, a collaborative of 7 large teaching hospitals in the Netherlands with a total annual expenditure of ± € 4 billion.
Expertise
Organisations
Ancillary Activities
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The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Research group Leader -
OECI
Accreditation & Designation Board and Working Group Health Economics European Organisation of Cancer Institutes (OECI) -
VAN - Strategy & Improvement
Consultancy and Interim Assignments
Publications
UT Research Information System
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Technohal
(building no. 18), room 3105
Hallenweg 5
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Technohal
3105
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands