AI in healthcare can help prevent bogus self-employment

On 4 November 2025, ZZP-erindezorg.nl published the opinion piece 'AI in healthcare helps prevent bogus self-employment' by Lex Tabak. Our founding partner Joost van Ladesteijn shares his views in it.

What is it about?

The debate on engaging self-employed professionals in healthcare has been stuck for years. The piece discusses how AI can help map and assess all facts and circumstances per assignment, based on legislation and case law. This ties in with the Supreme Court's standard: the question is always whether the agreement, once interpreted, is an employment contract within the meaning of Article 7:610 of the Dutch Civil Code (Supreme Court 24 March 2023, ECLI:NL:HR:2023:443).

What does Joost say?

According to Joost, AI makes data collection, assessment and file building possible at a level of detail that was unthinkable until recently. He expects AI to eventually change legal practice as profoundly as the chess computer Deep Blue changed chess: no lawyer can match it for speed, scale and completeness.

Read the article (in Dutch): ZZP-erindezorg.nl. More on this topic in our knowledge base on bogus self-employment. Questions about engaging self-employed professionals in healthcare? Contact us.

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