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E Health. What are our General Challenges ? Is there a place for E Health ? Can we work smarter not harder ? How can individuals/teams meet the daily challenges and pressures using E Health?. The General Challenges. Period of unprecedented change Performance Management/Targets Access
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E Health • What are our General Challenges ? • Is there a place for E Health ? • Can we work smarter not harder ? • How can individuals/teams meet the daily challenges and pressures using E Health?
The General Challenges • Period of unprecedented change • Performance Management/Targets • Access • Financial Balance • Patient Safety • CSR • Does E Health have a place ? • Can we afford it?
Technology is Key • ACCESSIBILITY • New ways of working e.g. Remote Monitoring, Virtual Ward • PATIENT SAFETY • Productive Ward, Transforming Care at the Bedside, HII’s • FINANCIAL BALANCE • Nurse Bank • Electronic Roster
The Virtual Ward • BMJ in paper* in 2002 showed KaiserPermanente in California seemed to provide higher quality healthcare than the NHS at a lower cost • Kaiser identify high risk people in their population and manage them intensively to avoid admissions • *Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with California's Kaiser Permanente BMJ 2002;324:135-143
The Virtual Ward • PARR (Patient at Risk of Readmission) • Mimic hospital ward • Patients cared for in their own homes • No physical ward building, hence the term virtual wards • Patients case managed by multidisciplinary team • Ward Team headed by Community Matron
What have we done • Invested in PARR • Invested in Groove Software • Invested in Hardware • Invested in Training • Flexibility Key
WHAT CAN YOU DO? Show leadership “In the leadership age you are asked to take the lead. Leadership is not a position; it is an attitude.” Ref: Robert Holden
WE ARE IN A NEW WORLD….. • Greater Success + • At Greater Speed + • With constant uncertainty + • With less resource + • With more competition • Ref: Robert Holden, Happiness Project
Consider which of these you are! The Techno phob? or The Techno Lover ?
The Rainbow Concept Is the result of the interaction between water droplets and light - Get the angle rightand a rainbow is seen Leadership is about the interaction of people and situations – Get the angle right and a community of leaders can evolve. Ref: The Institute of Leadership and Management Journal