Henk Veeze worked as pediatrician from 1985 up until 1998 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam/Sophia Children’s hospital, dept. Paediatrics and dept. of clinical genetics. From 1998 up until 2006 he worked at the IJsselland Hospital.
In 2006 he started in Rotterdam together with pediatrician Henk-Jan Aanstoot Diabeter Nederland, a specialised center for diabetes care and research. From 2008 there are four more centers started in Eindhoven, Deventer, Schiphol-Amsterdam and Groningen.
One of the main topics of Diabeter is the design and all programming tasks of a multidisciplinary Patient Care Database system (Vcare), a complete paperless patient-record system securing the patients and centre quality of care, import and monitoring of all data from patient devices at home and implement steps toward cloudcare for diabetes. Developed guiding algorhytmes for optimal pump settings and insuline dosing on MDI patients. Diabeter is a certified center dedicated to provide comprehensive and individualized care for children and adults with type 1 diabetes and one of the largest diabetes specialist centers in Europe, currently managing well over 3.000 patients. The aim for every diabetes patient is to keep glucose levels as well controlled as possible and to minimize the development of chronic complications. By making use of the latest technologies and cutting-edge clinical research, Diabeter helps patients towards a complication free future.
In May 2017 Diabeter won the Value Based HealthCare Award from Michael Porter.
