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The global healthcare sector has been facing unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19 and an ageing population. Ascom, a global leader in healthcare communication solutions, is taking the lead to address these challenges. Their innovative solutions close digital information gaps, enhance patient and staff safety and foster clinical collaboration and decision support. The ASCOM Healthcare event I had the honour to organize, under the leadership of Ascom France S.A. & Iberia team with Carlos JAIME and Sophie Giordano with amazing opening keynotes by Kostas Nikolopoulos and Gianluca Testasecca from Ascom Global, brought together healthcare leaders from across Europe to share insights and strategies to overcome burnout, address new clinical challenges, and navigate the transformation in healthcare. The event served as a clarion call for transformation within the healthcare industry. Part #2 of our event whitepaper captures the wisdom and strategies shared by leaders in the field, laying the groundwork for a healthcare landscape that thrives in the face of adversity. Including the following contributions ✅Tackling Burnout in Healthcare Insights and Solutions from Rita Veloso Board Member at the Santo Antonio Hospital Centre Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António ✅Insights and Solutions from Sandra Neves, Psychiatrist Coimbra University Hospital Centre ULS Coimbra ✅Addressing Healthcare Challenges Insights from Charles GUEPRATTE, General Director at FRENCH FEDERATION OF NOT-FOR-PROFIT HOSPITALS (FEHAP) hosted and moderated by Carlos Jaime, General Manager ASCOM France & Iberia ✅Addressing Healthcare Challenges in Portugal Insights by Rosa de Matos, President of the Board of Lisboa Central University Hospital Centre, Unidade Local de Saúde São José ✅The Pervasive Impact of Burnout in Healthcare: A Call for Collective Action Closing Keynote by Bonnie Clipper DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE, FAAN, Advisory Board Executive Chair of Digital Health Portugal and Founder & CEO of Innovation Advantage By understanding the pandemic's impact, confronting burnout head-on, and embracing novel approaches to patient care, healthcare professionals can chart a course towards a resilient, empowered future. #Ascom #HealthcareSolutions #HealthcareTransformation #PatientCare #ClinicalCollaboration #burnoutprevention #healthcareleadership

Today, Barcelona Health Hub had the pleasure to receive Juan Abarca, President of HM Hospitales & IDIS (Instituto para el Desarrollo e Integración de la Sanidad), and Antoni Garrell, President of HM Hospitales Catalunya. 💫 BHH's Luis Badrinas, Eva Rosell & Cristian Pascual met with them to highlight the importance of joint efforts to drive #digitalhealth innovation. HM Hospitales is the private hospital group of reference at national level that bases its offer on excellence in care together with research, teaching, constant technological #innovation and the publication of results. The IDIS Institute encourages all initiatives from the private health sector to aim at achieving an optimum level of care and health for all sectors of the population. It's great to see how both organizations align with BHH's purpose to benefit the #healthcare system and enhance people's quality of life.

📢📢A Major Step Toward Health Equity and Universal Care in Latin America📢📢 In an inspiring and monumental move, the #PAHO has approved the Strategy for the Integration of Surgical Care, Intensive Care, and Emergency Services 2025-2030. 🙌🙌 This groundbreaking proposal of resolution, spearheaded by our team when at the Vicepresidencia of the Republic leaded by Dr. Borrero, is a testament to the unwavering commitment to improving healthcare for millions across Latin America. 🇪🇨This strategy, first envisioned in Ecuador, underscores the critical importance of integrated surgical, obstetric, trauma, and anesthesia services in achieving universal health coverage. It is designed to bolster national and regional healthcare systems, ensuring that high-quality, safe, and accessible emergency and surgical care are available to all, particularly in underserved areas. 🌎🌎 Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, Jamaica and others from the Executive Committee have thrown their full support behind this initiative, recognizing its potential to transform healthcare delivery and outcomes across the region. Their endorsement highlights a collective resolve to address the disparities in healthcare access and to build resilient health systems capable of responding to both routine and emergency medical needs. This strategy will serve as a catalyst for public policy development and decisive actions aimed at strengthening healthcare systems across the Americas. 🔜The resolution's passage sets the stage for its formal adoption by PAHO member states in September 2024. This upcoming vote represents a pivotal moment, urging nations to commit to implementing robust, integrated healthcare systems that leave no one behind. Together, we can achieve health for all. #paho##HealthEquity #UniversalHealthCoverage #HealthcareIntegration #LatinAmericaHealth #SurgicalCare #EquityInHealth Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization

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The ability to view my entire patient story, the story of my health, is essential to not only me, but my health care team. The value of interoperability along the continumm of my care cannot be overemphasized. This excellent article, with input from Canada Health Infoway and PocketHealth speaks to the benefits of WHY we should be pushing towards interoperability and the importance of tabling Bill C-72 in doing so. https://lnkd.in/gFHHcZGm

🌗Let’s talk politics a bit. Nooo, no aimless accusations here, promise. 👉 Instead, let’s see what science says about the trends in healthcare politics of right-wing governments and what are the possible implications in Europe. 🔍 Yup, right-wing governments tend to spend less on public healthcare. Period. According to a study by Herwartz & Theilen (2014), prolonged governance by right-wing parties correlates with decreased public healthcare expenditure compared to left-wing counterparts. "If governments are sufficiently long in power, right-wing governments spend less on public health than their left-wing counterparts" (Herwartz & Theilen, 2014). 💡 The European public healthcare spending is not in particularly good shape: Rechel (2019) reports a concerning trend of funding cutbacks for public health across Europe. Despite some countries maintaining or increasing investment, many have faced reductions, leading to adverse effects on essential services and health outcomes. 🌐 The political landscape has a deepening impact: with the rise of right-wing political parties, private healthcare institutions in European nations are surging as a direct result of the decline of public healthcare spending. 💊 Fact and hard-to-swallow pill: European public healthcare faces decline amid right-wing governance, leading to increased reliance on private healthcare. ⚡️This shift necessitates innovative solutions to maintain consistent patient pathways amidst declining public healthcare. And this is where Targenta Ltd. comes into the picture. 🌍At Targenta we provide secure communication options for medical professionals and handy tools to accelerate patient pathways – regardless of whether they are working in the same place or what crazy unmatching schedules they may have. 💬 Share your thoughts! What other reasons can be that private healthcare is thriving in Europe? #HealthcarePolicy #PublicHealth #RightWingGovernments #PrivateHealthcare #HealthcarePolicy #PublicHealth #targenta #patientpathways 📚 Citations: Herwartz, H., & Theilen, B. (2014). Health care and ideology: a reconsideration of political determinants of public healthcare funding in the OECD. Health Econ, 23(2), 225-240. [DOI: 10.1002/hec.2917] Rechel, B. (2019). Funding for public health in Europe in decline? Health Policy, 123(1), 21-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.11.014]

Yesterday, the The Shelford Group's annual conference took place at the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, bringing together policymakers, service leaders, and practitioners to delve into critical discussions on accelerating changes to address upcoming challenges in healthcare and secure the well-being of our populations. The morning session, exclusively for Shelford Group members, set the stage for insightful conversations and collaboration. It commenced with an inspiring opening by Will Warburton, Shelford MD, who highlighted the impactful contributions of the group. He also chaired a thought-provoking panel discussion on collaborative efforts within the Shelford Group with Clive Kay Tim Orchard and Kirsten Major. Throughout the day, esteemed speakers and experts shared their knowledge and practical examples, focusing on transformative care strategies and the imperative actions required for ensuring a sustainable healthcare service in the long term. Panel discussions included: 💡 Insights from Sir Chris Whitty, on essential health trends we need to address. 💡 Explorations on evolving care models, chaired by Clive Kay 💡 Discussions on the role of artificial intelligence in healthcare, chaired by David Probert 💡 Perspectives on policymaking in healthcare, chaired by Kirsten Major The discussions were not only enlightening but underscored the commitment of the Shelford Group to drive positive change and innovation in healthcare delivery. It was also great to network with colleagues across the Shelford Group and as always, a few selfies captured the moment! Nicola Ranger Prof. Bola Owolabi, MRCGP MFPH(Hon), FRSPH Yvon Poland MCIPD #Shelford2024 #HealthcareInnovation #FutureOfHealthcare

#AmChamHealthCareCouncil "We could see some clear threads that tied the discussion together. The first is a desire, and determination, to provide better quality care more effectively. The second is a willingness to listen to different perspectives, to learn from them, and to figure a way to align interests and aims. AmCham is now stitching together a summary of the session, including a list of priorities, to share with policymakers in the government and parliament. Our aim is to build working coalitions to address these priorities, and to make Czech health care a competitive advantage for citizens and companies."

Here we have an expert who is a CMA proxy. I suspect there are many others willing to act as such for the CMA. In the spirit of fairness, one would expect policy makers to listen to both sides of an argument, but that is not happening with respect to the debate about the privatization of #healthcare. The foot soldiers are amassing. The CMA will argue that it held cross-country tours to garner opinions about the "public-private interface". I read the draft report & as noted in a previous post, techniques were used to solicit the desired result, that is support for privatization. Wordsmithing is alive & well. Terms like "delivery of health services" or "private delivery of publicly funded services" is a devious way to design support. Making a distinction btw privatization as a general term & the delivery of healthcare in a private setting is a distinction w/o a difference. Privatization is privatization. Suggesting evidence that does not support privatization is "dated", is simply wrong. Refer to the book, with 462 references, (2022) entitled Dyingtobeseen (by Catherine MacNeil). Where are the reported references supporting privatization? Also, all policy experts must watch the YouTube Video "The Great NHS Heist", which documents how governments, lobby groups, insurance companies etc. (all with a vested interest) systematically destroyed public healthcare in Britain. These sources of information are incontrovertible & should be included in discussions by policy consultants & others. There seems to be a negative connotation with respect to data gathered in other countries. Where else could the data come from? Lobby groups & their proxies want it both ways. One day the experience in another country is used to bolster arguments for privatization. On another, the very same reports are refuted. Talk about cherry-picking & being self-serving. Confirmation bias, not scientific. We are told that "innovation & experiment" (experimentation) in Canada, "new approaches to deliver health care" & "expanded use of the private sector" will somehow, magically, produce significant outcomes in "patient access, health care quality, costs & health outcomes". It is clear that the book and video noted above & many other reports, state otherwise. Tinkering with the #CanadaHealthAct & the delivery of healthcare will not produce such results, but destroy public healthcare as we know it. A mix of public & private delivery systems is like mixing oil with water. The oil will always separate from the water. The same applies to privatization. This is important b/c if public healthcare is lost, it will be lost forever. It will never be recovered because the very powerful lobby groups & healthcare industries will coerce politicians into submission. Justin TrudeauHon. Mark Holland, PC, MP Bonnie Crombie, MBA, ICD.D Danielle Martin Catherine MacNeil Nick Tsergas Christine Birak Canadian Doctors for Medicare Kathleen Ross Joss Reimer Jane Philpott Andre Picard Ted Ball

How well did Czechia’s health care system survive Covid? What do its leading practitioners and experts think of its current state? What immediate solutions and long term goals would improve their ability to serve citizens? When you ask politicians about health care, you tend to get answers at the two ends of the spectrum. If their party is in power, everything is great. If their party is out of power, everything sucks. The answer, of course, is somewhere in the middle. But where? And what would it take to inch health care closer to perfection? AmCham CZ ‘s Health Care Council, led by Michala Malat of Johnson & Johnson and Vaclav Novotny of Aspironix, recently gathered experts representing a cross-section of the health care market and asked them to answer those questions. As expected, Pavel Hrobon of the Advanced Health Care Institute delivered different advice than David Kolář of AIFP. Miroslav Palat of CzechMed had different immediate priorities than Antonín Hlavinka of Olomouc Hospital, Michal Šnorek of Ceske Budejovice’s hospital,, or Martina Sochmanova of the nursing association. From his vantage point as a doctor, Martin Balik suggested different long term goals than Jitka Vojtova, who assesses health care through insuring patients. And Edita Mullerova sees all of this with the eyes of the patients she represents. Nevertheless, we could see some clear threads that tied the discussion together. The first is a desire, and determination, to provide better quality care more effectively. The second is a willingness to listen to different perspectives, to learn from them, and to figure a way to align interests and aims. AmCham is now stitching together a summary of the session, including a list of priorities, to share with policymakers in the government and parliament. Our aim is to build working coalitions to address these priorities, and to make Czech health care a competitive advantage for citizens and companies. Thanks also to Pavel Sedláček of Pfizer and Karin Bacmanakova of Bristol Myers Squibb for helping us put some order to the discussion, and to Jaroslav Skvrna and Pavel Nevicky of Deloitte for giving a place to meet and a opening framework for the debate. #HealthCare #digitization