Customized COVID-19 Recovery Solutions
Our Integrated Hospital Solutions team has the tools and experience to help health systems adapt while helping to maintain safety and capacity.
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Even before the pandemic, hospitals and healthcare systems were facing enormous economic and clinical challenges. The aging of the population and ever-increasing healthcare costs were already putting immense pressure on healthcare systems. However, the COVID-19 crisis completely disrupted hospital activities.
Hospitals are slowly but surely trying to resume regular operations, but they are also faced with a multifaceted challenge: fighting COVID-19 at the frontlines, optimizing reduced capacity, and providing care to patients who are afraid to come to the hospital.
We can help you optimize planning and implement new processes using data and decision-making tools to help resume elective procedures, while maintaining safety and maximizing constrained resources.
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CHALLENGES during COVID-19:
HOW OUR SOLUTIONS CAN HELP with more agile care planning
The pandemic has put enormous pressure on hospitals worldwide. Hospitals are confronted with:
- a sustained flow of COVID-19 patients;
- a backlog in deferred procedures;
- the impact of interrupted care for chronic disease patients;
- the impact on the normal flow of patients;
- enabling care outside the hospital to keep patients safe.
We want to help you find solutions to your bottlenecks by using our proven methodology to co-design and implement solutions that can improve your procedures and their outcomes.
We propose a transformative partnership model to help solve the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and help health systems transition to a 'new normal'.
RECOVERY PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
In resuming elective procedures, hospitals are confronted with numerous bottlenecks and challenges. With the deep clinical expertise of Integrated Health Solutions by your side, we can help you prepare for adapted operations by leveraging analytics to inform your decisions, optimizing virtual and local care delivery models for your specific population.
WHY?
- Covid-19 caused large backlogs in elective procedures
- Spare capacity must be maintained in case of resurgence of Covid-19
- Planning agility and structured implementation are key to recovery
WHAT?
- Recovery dashboards can provide quick overview analysis and forecast of demand and resources
- Financial impact modeling
- Clinical support, prioritization, and planning for effectiveness of recovery transition
HOW?
- Monitoring Covid-19 best practices among global healthcare systems
- Our data analytics and system dynamic simulations can forecast the impact of different scenarios
- Our implementation team facilitates the process to ensure we provide the best feasible options
CAPACITY optimization program
The COVID-19 pandemic has created enormous workload for clinicians. And the backlog of delayed regular procedures during the acute wave created a huge capacity gap in the hospital (WHY).
IHS can offer a phased approach to optimize and release capacity (HOW).
WHY?
- Elective backlogs created large capacity gaps
- Optimizing patient processes can free up capacity
- Standardization and process optimization can reduce staff workload.
WHAT?
- Planning : optimal use of capacity such as beds, inventory, and staffing
- Care path design & optimization : streamlining processes in the chain
- Virtual clinical / technical support: enabling remote care and enhancing nursing capacity
HOW?
- Inventory phase: analysis of current situation, prioritization of possible solutions
- Design phase: custom solutions prepared for implementation
- Implementation phase: depending on the project size and role of Medtronic
INTEGRATED CARE PATHWAYS
Adoption of virtual tools has soared because of COVID-19. Virtual care is particularly helpful for vulnerable and remote patient populations, but also for those concerned about safety. Our team can help you design integrated patient pathways that combine virtual and in-person care within your local clinic operations to help improve access to timely, safe care while keeping providers and patients connected
WHY?
- New workflows can be required to provide increased efficiencies and meet new safety needs
- Improved care pathways can lead to a reduction in readmissions
- Remote monitoring and virtual care can reduce risk of exposure, and reduce costs
WHAT?
- Gap analysis in current status
- Development of standardized care pathways
- Implementation of Virtual Care solutions for targeted patient populations
HOW?
- Discovery phase: analysis of current referral networks, communication efforts, and prioritization of solutions
- Design phase: design and implement solution, eg account plan per referrer, communication plan with specific actions, implementation steps