I have always been a synthesizer of ideas or concepts. Of course, I am aware of the risks involved, because when you mix water with wine, it no longer has the freshness of water or the taste of wine. The same goes for ideas, synthesizing concepts is a methodological risk, because you can lose the […]
The reduction of waste is important because it has a symmetrical impact on pre-tax profits. In other words: less waste = more profit. As human beings, we are more inclined to explore new territory than to manage more efficiently what we already have. Managing is a tedious and often unrecognized task, but it is a job […]
In 2018, Klaus Schwab, professor, engineer and economist, cited the digitization of healthcare as the fourth industrial revolution. The various technological innovations in information and data control applied to the production of goods and services involve hospital technologies. Unified electronic records, different forms of monitoring and health care, greater precision in diagnoses, time reduction in processes, personalized care […]
Introduction In April 2013, ANVISA published Ordinance No. 529, which inserts in Brazilian healthcare the concern with Patient Safety. The ordinance had a great value even 14 years after the publication of the report “To Err is human”, considered the first milestone of Patient Safety in the world, because it was from there that this issue gained […]
First of all, we must present the definition of the word waste. In the dictionary, the masculine noun waste means “exaggerated expenditure; squandering” and “use without profit; loss”. These meanings can already dimension how waste is harmful in any occasion. In healthcare, LEAN methodology seeks to reduce variation and improve processes, which reduces waste. It promotes understanding of hospital routines, […]
Introduction The current healthcare system, in addition to failing to invest in disease prevention, lacks integration or teamwork, and is fragmented. Patients do not receive the attention and care they deserve and need. The lack of safety causes countless incidents throughout Brazil. Actions capable of involving disease prevention, better care focused on patients who are […]
To the whirlwind of changes due to new technologies, a new perception of reality is now added. A change within another forces us to reconceptualize and simplify reality. We are standing on a bridge, leaving the past and heading towards a very different future. The gravitational force of changes is consolidated with greater transparency, the […]
It was 2008 when Moisés Curvello, who at the time was assisting the automotive industry in the installation of robots, joined his friend Victor Basso to found Opuspac. The two engineers had a combined 50 years of entrepreneurial experience. They started with a small plant, 130 m², and one technician. Everything in this company was designed from nothing, without […]
Concern about human error and accident risk management in organizations is relatively recent. For at least two decades, several studies in different countries have been evaluating patient safety in hospitals, but more attention needs to be paid to system failures to measure and evaluate what happened in order to develop strategies capable of increasing and improving the […]
In 2017, the WHO launched a global challenge to decrease serious and preventable medication-related harm by 50% by 2022. And to help on this journey, hospital management will need more robust monitoring systems. Some available tools include: Global Trigger Tool (GTT) Medication Safety Thermometer (MST) These help measure adverse drug-related events. Through notifications alone, it is impossible to measure […]
