Inside Denmark’s 2024 Health Reform and New Digital Health Denmark (Morten Elbæk Petersen)

Denmark has been a digital health frontrunner for over two decades. In this episode, recorded live in Barcelona, Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO of sundhed.dk, shares how Denmark launched its national patient portal in 2002 — long before most European countries began digitizing patient access. Now, as Denmark prepares for a major health reform culminating in the establishment of Digital Health Denmark in 2027, the country is modernizing legacy systems, strengthening cybersecurity, integrating secondary data, and shifting care from hospitals to homes. This conversation explores what long-term digital maturity really means — the benefits, the legacy challenges, and the governance reforms shaping Denmark’s next chapter.

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Inside Denmark’s 2024 Health Reform and New Digital Health Denmark (Morten Elbæk Petersen) is an episode from Faces of Digital Health by Tjasa Zajc.

This episode is 18:42 long.

This episode was published on Feb 25, 2026.

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