Brilliant Failures Award Healthcare 2016 awarded for the third time
On 10 March reached Erik Gerritsen (secretary general, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport) on behalf of the Institute of Brilliant Failures for the third time the Brilliant Failures Award Healthcare from. The professional jury and the public chose the winner”New care trajectory without patients due to lack of referral" from 8 nominated cases. A special trajectory for somatically unexplained physical complaints (MUPS), devised to relieve GPs and hospitals, did not get off the ground because GPs found it difficult to refer patients with unexplained complaints. The result was a new care trajectory without patients. Submitter of the case was Dr. M.A. (Loes) van Bokhoven MD PhD from 1200 All that provides first-line diagnostics for general practitioners in the Westelijke Mijnstreek in Limburg.
Second place went to “Well cured not insured”: Patients found a new one themselves, foreign treatment against the effects of Lyme, but did not have the means and possibilities to go through the official way (evidence-based) also to convince the health insurer.
And third place went to the digitization project of “Hotline to Home" from 2005, to keep patients in touch with the home front via image connection. All parties involved were enthusiastic except the patients themselves. They preferred a few scarce live moments than image bubbles. A very topical project that was a decade ahead of its time.
Failures in the world of research and innovation are often surrounded by embarrassment. Unfairly, because a failing project is not always the result of thoughtless thinking and acting. Moreover: research that yields something very different from what was expected, can still be very valuable. In addition, the mistakes made often show how a project can be improved. In short: failures are a rich source of inspiration. If parties in healthcare are honest about their 'mistakes' and share their experiences, the learning capacity in the sector receives a strong impulse.
This year's jury consisted of: Cathy van Beek (Board of Directors, UMC St. Radboud, ); Bas Bloem (Medical director, ParC); Paul iske (Institute for Brilliant Failures); Henk J. Blacksmith (director ZonMw), Edwin Bas (Care GfK) and Jeroen Kemperman (Zilveren Kruis).
With the presentation of the Award, the Institute for Brilliant Failures, in collaboration with ZonMw and partners in the sector, wants to contribute to innovation within the sector.. With this festive event and attention to the 8 nominated cases, it certainly succeeded!
From Brilliant Failures Award Healthcare 2016 is an initiative of the Institute of Brilliant Failures (This competition is organized by the Institute of Brilliant Failures). Partners in the award are: SunMw, Heart Foundation, the Heart & Barrel group, Zilveren Kruis, Tata, GFK at ABN AMRO. Ambassador is Erik Gerritsen, Secretary General at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.
Sign up now for the presentation of the Brilliant Failures Award Care 2016
Thursday 10 March 2016, 13.30-17.00
Congress Center Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Zeist
With the participation of Erik Gerritsen, among others, Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and Norbert Hoogers, division chairman Zorg Zilveren Kruis Achmea.
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Call for participation in the Healthcare Award 2016! – you can win it!
“This prize has once again proven its own right to exist … very educational!”- Prof. Bastian R. Flower, MD, PhD
Erik Gerritsen, Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has expressed its heartfelt willingness to act as ambassador for the Brilliant Failures in healthcare.
In March 2016 we reach for the third time the Brilliant Failures Award from, an award for the best failure in healthcare. you can win it! And thus contribute to transparency and learning capacity in healthcare.
Failures in the world of research and innovation are often surrounded by embarrassment
Unfairly, because a failing project is not always the result of thoughtless thinking and acting. Moreover: research that yields something very different from what was expected, can still be very valuable. In addition, the mistakes made often show how a project can be set up better next time. In short: mistakes are a rich source of inspiration. If parties in healthcare are honest about their 'mistakes' and share their experiences, the learning capacity in the sector receives a strong impulse. With the presentation of the Award, the Institute for Brilliant Failures wants to contribute to this in collaboration with ZonMw and partners in the sector..
The Brilliant Failures Award
With the awarding of the Brilliant Failures Award – Care 2013 and 2014 has put the importance of sharing failures on the map. This year we once again invite scientists and professionals to build on this success and contribute to transparency and innovation capacity in healthcare.. Any failed project to learn from, qualifies, whether it be examples from prevention, care, be research or practice. You can submit by sending a simple email with an answer to the following questions:
- What was the intention?
- What approach has been chosen to achieve that goal?
- What was the result? And how did that differ from what they hoped to achieve?
- What lesson did the failure bring? And what can others learn from it?
Is your failure worth gold?
Have you learned from failure in recent years?? Then send an email to redactie@briljantemislukkingen.nl for the Brilliant Failures Award –Care 2016 appearance 15 February. When we receive your submission, we will then help you to make the case suitable for nomination. The Award will be festively presented in March 2016. A selection of the best failures submitted will be presented and there will be room for discussion about lessons learned. The Award consists of a jury prize and a public prize. Download the PDF brochure here.
For questions and submissions: redactie@briljantemislukkingen.nl
Bas Ruyssenaars (+31 6 14213347) of Paul Iske (+31 6 54626160). Check out the website for brilliant videos and for last year's winners: https://www.briljantemislukkingen.nl/awardzorg/
The Brilliant Failures Award – Care 2016 is made possible in part by ZonMw, Hart- and Vessel group, Heart Foundation, Tata Consultancy Services, GFK, Silver Cross and ABN AMRO.
The Brilliant Failures Award in Healthcare 2014 goes to…
Interventional radiologist and researcher Prof. Jim Reekers (Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam) has been awarded the Brilliant Failures Award Care 2014. The winner was Tuesday afternoon 9 announced during a meeting in Amsterdam in December. The presentation of this prize is an initiative of the Institute for Brilliant Failures, SunMw, The Friesland, ABN AMRO MeesPierson Institutes & Charitas and the Dialogues House of ABN-AMRO, where the award ceremony took place. It was the second time the prize was awarded.
Failures in the world of research and innovation are often surrounded by embarrassment
Unfairly, because a failing project is not always the result of thoughtless thinking and acting. Moreover: research that yields something very different from what was expected, can still be very valuable. In addition, the mistakes made often show how a project can be set up better next time. In short: mistakes are a rich source of inspiration. If parties in healthcare are honest about their 'mistakes'’ and share their experiences, the learning capacity in the sector receives a strong impulse. With the presentation of the Award, the initiators want to contribute to this.
Results are no guarantee
This year, eight researchers had the guts to submit their project. After a short presentation that focused on the learning moments, the jury announced the winner: prof. Jim Reekers (researcher and interventional radiologist at the Academic Medical Center – University of Amsterdam) was the most brilliant failure of all the nominees, this was apparent from the weighted judgment of the jury and the public. Reekers evaluated a new treatment method for fibroids (meat trees) in the womb. An embolization (close) of the blood vessels that feed the fibroid – turns out to be considerably cheaper, leads to shorter admissions and is less invasive, while quality of life is equivalent to having the uterus removed – the standard procedure. However, the study did not lead to more frequent use of the new treatment. De bottleneck: the attending gynaecologists are not very willing to 'give up' their patients’ to another specialist, namely the interventional radiologist. The title of Reekers’ submission is therefore not for nothing: Results achieved in the past, offer no guarantee for the future.
Reekers received the award (a modern sculpture of wood and mirror glass, designed by Syta Fokkema) awarded by jury chairman Paul Iske. Subsequently, a discussion took place about improving the error climate in healthcare. ZonMw director Henk Smid expressed the wish that making mistakes will be seen as an inseparable part of the innovation process in the near future.. ‘Researchers and healthcare professionals who are open about this, should be rewarded. For example with this Award', says Smith.
Presentation Brilliant Failures award care 2014
Together with the Institute for Brilliant Failures and De Friesland Zorgverzekeraar, ZonMw is presenting the Brilliant Failures Award Healthcare for the second time this year. 2014 from.
In addition to the presentation of the submitted failures, knowledge exchange and discussion about learning points for care innovation and research will then be central. What do the failures teach us? How can we achieve a better 'error climate'?? A climate in which making mistakes is seen as an integral part of the innovation process. And in which lessons learned, more than now, are shared and applied. Is an Award the right way to break the taboo on sharing failures? Or are there other ways? Look at here the program.
You can participate in this event (participation is free) by signing up with an email to redactie@briljantemislukkingen.nl o.v.v. Award Care 9 december.
Brilliant Failures Award – Care 2014
You can learn from mistakes! Who didn't get it imprinted as a child? Yet we often do not dare to be open if we do not achieve our goals. The Institute for Brilliant Failures, SunMw, De Friesland Health Insurer, Dialogues House, and ABN-AMRO MeesPierson Institutes & Charity, want to change that. Because it is precisely in a professional environment that failures often lead to progress. In 2014 we reach for the second time the Brilliant Failures Award from, an award for the best failure in healthcare. The Award will be festively presented on 9 december in Dialogues House in Amsterdam. Anyone interested can register via: redactie@briljantemislukkingen.nl
The challenge
Healthcare is changing dramatically. More customization, an emphasis on quality of life, targeted funding and a shift to "self-management" of the patient. Innovations that involve trial and error. Because new initiatives do not always go as planned. And that is just as well. After all, innovation is mainly the result of learning from what does not work. Learning ability is a sign of strength. But that takes guts and an open dialogue.
The Brilliant Failures Award
With the awarding of the Brilliant Failures Award – Care 2013 has put the importance of sharing failures on the map. In 2014 we want to build on this success by further expanding transparency on failures. And to give a strong boost to the innovative capacity in healthcare with the knowledge that this yields. We invite everyone to this again, scientists and professionals in the healthcare field, to report failed projects.
Is your failure worth gold?
Have you learned from failure in recent years?? A failed project in the context of innovation in healthcare? Then send an email to redactie@briljantemislukkingen.nl for the Brilliant Failures Award –Care 2014 for the deadline of 31 October. Any failed project to learn from, qualifies, whether it be examples from prevention, care, be research or practice. You can submit by sending a simple email with an answer to the following questions:
- What was the intention?
- What approach has been chosen to achieve that goal?
- What was the result? And how did that differ from what they hoped to achieve?
- What lesson did the failure bring? And what can others learn from it?
When we receive your submission, we will then help you to make the case suitable for nomination. The Award will be festively presented on 9 december in Dialogues House from ABN-AMRO in Amsterdam. A selection of the best failures submitted will be presented and lessons will be discussed. The Award consists of a jury prize and a public prize.
For questions and submissions mail to: redactie@briljantemislukkingen.nl of bel: Bas Ruyssenaars (+31 6 14213347) of David Dodd (+31 6 15086358)
Watch Henk Smid's TedTalk below about brilliant failures at TedX Health Nijmegen 2013:
Watch an animation with an example of a Brilliant Failure here: