The LUMC aims to improve healthcare and people’s health. Innovations are fuelled by our educational activities and achieved through the interaction between research and practical applications in patient care. This way, we create added value for our patients and society.
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Focuses on three of society’s priorities regarding health:
Data-driven healthcare and AI represent the digital transformation within our core tasks. At LUMC, we believe that data-driven work and AI can make a valuable contribution to appropriate and value-driven care. Therefore, we are working on applying various forms of AI, from predictive models for disease patterns to image and speech recognition for automating repetitive tasks, to making complex management information transparent.
Regenerative medicine
In the future, we may finally cure diseases that are now chronic, such as diabetes, kidney disease and heart failure. To do so, we must be able to repair, replace or restore a patient’s diseased or injured organs. This underlies the aim of regenerative medicine. The LUMC has been a pioneer of such type of medicine for more than fifty years.
Changes in society and demographic trends are putting pressure on our healthcare system. In addition to their innovations in academic care, UMCs are increasingly expected to contribute to healthcare solutions that will make care accessible and affordable now and in the future. This is why the LUMC has opted to prioritise population health. We believe that population health involves studying the transition from health to disease in the population and how to reduce the risk of disease, as well as developing and testing interventions to promote health. In view of its importance to society and the associated regional opportunities, the LUMC has chosen to maximise its efforts in this field.
The Health Campus The Hague has made a promising start, in cooperation with research groups at the LUMC and Leiden University. We are focusing on promoting the health of large groups of people who have similar profiles, making use of data analytics. Infectious diseases also form a serious threat to public health, a concern that is at the heart of our new Leiden Controlled Human Infection Centre (L-CHIC).
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