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Introduction to Hospital Logistics and the Role of the Pharmacist

Hospital Logistics is a set of activities that involves managing supplies, materials, equipment, medicines, waste and beds in hospitals, ensuring that the necessary resources are available at the right time and in the right quantity. Its processes are necessary to ensure that supplies are stored correctly and that waste is disposed of appropriately, avoiding ‘Mudas’ […]

Safety Culture in Healthcare Organizations: The Role of High Reliability Organizations Principles

The safety culture in healthcare organizations is a fundamental concept to ensure the quality of care and patient safety. With the increasing complexity of healthcare, it becomes essential to adopt practices and principles that promote a safe and efficient environment. High Reliability Organizations (HROs) offer a set of principles that can be applied in healthcare […]

Brief History of Pharmacy: Past and Future

The journey of pharmacy is a fascinating chapter that traces back to the Arabs of the 2nd century, pioneers in the art of creating medicines. Their innovative techniques of distillation, plant extraction, and substance mixing gave rise to apothecaries, where pharmacists and apothecaries, true masters in the manipulation of remedies, served both the local population […]

Uncovering the causes of Hospital Readmission and Transforming Patient Health

Hospital readmissions represent a constant problem in hospitals, as if their causes are not identified, measured and controlled, they can increase risks for patients and financial losses for institutions. Hospital readmission is the term used by Anvisa (Brazil), Medicare (USA) and other health agencies worldwide to refer to the calculation of the patient’s return within […]

Digital Transformation: Automation in Hospitals and Patient Safety

The inspiration for this article came from the feeling of sharing important issues not mentioned so openly before. It was through participation as a listener in November/2022, in the webinar organized by the Healthcare Alliance and with the support of SindHosp and IQG (Qualisa Institute of Health Management) where it was possible to follow a rich debate between health professionals focused on Patient […]

LQS – Lean, Quality and Safety

QA (Quality Assurance) – or Quality Control – is a discipline that also involves Patient Safety, according to the IOM – Institute of Medicine. Since 2002, Lean has been integrated with Lean Healthcare as a hospital discipline that seeks to increase quality, reduce waste, optimize delivery time and occupied spaces, improving customer-oriented processes, in this case […]

LEAN HEALTHCARE: a way forward

We write again on this topic, because in these times, in the face of cost increases, it seems that the Health sector needs a “retrofit” and although we are very excited about the new technologies AI, IoT, 5G, telemedicine and others, we believe that there are many things to do with disruptive solutions, although less […]

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