Now that we wonder what 2011 will bring this year seems a good time to go little further and think about what will happen to the Hospitals in the next 10 years. This article Review Hospital, which made us come in the last newsletter Periscophios , presents five ways expected to change:
1. Hospitals redesign their processes, rather than building new facilities
Due to the shortage of available budget, the trend is re-examining the processes through simulations. Analyze inefficiencies seems essential to reduce costs and provide better service. Jimmy
Champy, author of " Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery " explains that in a study carried detected in a hospital stay of 4 days, the patient saw 24 professionals different or in a hospital performed 17 steps from the doctor performing the prescription and the medication reaches the patient. He concludes: " Healthcare professionals should pay attention to the complexity, time and cost everything they do."
2. Doctors, nurses and technicians health made work that fits their level of qualification:
Instead of doctors and nurses assigned to tasks that could be done by someone with lesser qualifications, hospitals save money by hiring more paramedics.
3. Some hospitals closed ( in USA! ):
Although it is not transferable to our environment in the United States, many hospitals are struggling financiers that could spell the end of a good number of them in the next ten years . These organizations will have to look inficiencias health and waste to remove them if to survive.
4. Hospitals will focus on reducing readmissions:
In 2009, according to a study published in New England Journal of Medicine , one in five patients were readmitted to hospital within 30 days after discharge. According to experts, readmissions is a major avoidable costs.
Apparently, a large proportion of readmissions is not following doctor's orders after discharge. One part is caused by a lack of care of the patient, but there is another due to communication problems with patients and their families. Consequently, effective communication becomes an issue crucial to avoid readmissions.
5. Prevention:
Experts say that, if hospitals want to reduce their cost of providing services and improving their quality, should focus on disease prevention. Having a healthy population makes it less demand for hospital services , and therefore ... Generate less cost!
Finally, within 10 years we will see if these predictions have come true ...
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