HOW TO MAKE HOSPITAL REFORMS HAPPEN?

I have just come home from attending the 2021 International Hospital Federation World Congress (#IHF2021 #IHFBarcelona) in Barcelona, Spain. The sessions discussed about how every hospital on earth were affected by COVID-19 and had to cope and adapt with changes to respond to the deluge of patients who need critical care. The concept that nobody is safe until everyone is safe pushes forward intensive vaccination efforts and COVID-19 protocols to prevent transmission.

Other sessions tackled on hospital innovations like digital transformation for more efficient health systems especially with logistics, and knowledge transfers for public information dissemination to combat the infodemic; cultural sensitivity while implementing changes in the hospital with special mention of sufficient salaries for healthcare professionals; improved patient access thru teleconsultation; the concept of green hospitals for sustainable hospital environment, patient navigation systems and health financing.

As we arrived back in the Philippines, we checked in to the hotels accredited by the Department of Health and the Bureau of Quarantine for our mandatory quarantine. We were fortunate to attend the Philippine Hospital Association Annual Convention (#PHA2021) remotely. Dr Iris Thiele Isip-Tan discussed about the infodemic and invited interested hospital staff to join the WHO program for infodemic managers. Speakers shared about services offered such as hospitals in the home, programs for healthcare worker retention, collaborations with media partners to organize webicons, ease of doing business and health financing.

This was topic for #HealthXPH tweetchat November 20, 2021 (Saturday) about the current condition of our hospitals and health care systems and much needed hospital reforms.  Let us peek into some of those tweets:

T1. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a lot of weakness in our current hospital systems. Which one do you think needs to be addressed most urgently?

T2. Learning to live in the new normal after COVID-19 pandemic, what hospital reform do you think will improve access to healthcare?

T3. How do we make these hospital reforms happen?

In closing, hospitals were war zones for COVID-19 and this is the time to reform and rehabilitate our hospitals to make them environmentally sustainable, efficient, collaborative, coordinative and integrated with external health systems with digital transformation of all processes, including communication with patient clients.

Looking up the SYMPLUR analytics for this tweetchat: