E-health: het Huidhuis

The Dutch Skin House (www.huidhuis.nl) is an innovative and interactive online platform for patients with skin conditions and others involved, including health care professionals. Currently the platform is primarily aimed at skin disease in children and adolescents. It offers reliable and specialist information about everything from diagnosis to treatment. Patients can also create their own online protected, personal health record in which they can start a diagnostic or treatment plan. The aim of the Skin House is to create transmural continuation of care which is centred upon the patient. Additionally, the Skin House is focusing on scientific research by means of fellow platform the Research House.

Conflict of interest and financial support: the Skin House has received grants from the Under Your Skin Foundation, Ohra NUTS fund, the Province of Flevoland, Dutch Council for Quality of Healthcare, Agis Innovation Fund and Skin Fund.