Hospitals” to commence at AIIMS, Jammu from tomorrow , leading overseas health experts to deliver levectures
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Jammu, January 31 : All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS) Jammu , and Monash University , Australia will organize a three-day prestigious workshop , beginning Wednesday , on “ Building Lean , Green and Digital Hospitals”. This is for the first time that such a big initiative has been taken in Jammu and Kashmir, especially Jammu .
Prof ( Dr.) Shakti Kumar Gupta, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer , AIIMS Jammu said that a delegation of healthcare experts from overseas will be visiting AIIMS, Jammu for three days days i.e.1 st – 3 rd February 2023 to exchange ideas with their counterparts in India.. “ Their visit to Jammu will include holding meetings with senior executives and clinicians at AIIMS-Jammu and holding a workshop entitled: “Building Lean, Green and Digital Hospitals.’
Led by Professor Amrik Singh Sohal from Monash Business School, Monash
University, Australia, the delegation will include Professor Julie Wolfram Cox (Monash University), Professor Julie Davies (University College London, UK), Associate Professor Glen Croy (Monash University), and two of the leading consultant surgeons from Melbourne – Dr Geoff Cox and Dr Janet Hsuan.
Prof (Dr) Shakti Kumar Gupta briefed that ‘Lean in Healthcare’ became popular in many Western countries almost two decades ago. Based on the Toyota Production System, Lean focusses in eliminating waste and optimizing processes.
This will be a mutually learning experience for the visitors and hosts . Jammu’s medical faculty is quite excited over the visit of the overseas health experts and their lectures at the workshop , which assumes greater significance owing to the lessons learnt during the Covid-pandemic when absence of such concepts hindered healthcare Improving healthcare systems remain a top priority for all nations around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many weaknesses in the provision of
healthcare, especially relating to capacity issues, quality of care, supply issues and managerial/leadership challenges experienced at the interface between health and social care. Although healthcare delivery has changed dramatically over the past two decades, there are numerous opportunities to improve how hospitals (healthcare systems) are designed and operated. In this respect, building hospital that are Lean, Green and Digital have become critical to providing high-quality, affordable and
virtual healthcare to all citizens.
Resource scarcity, climate change and environment impact from our processes and wastes are motivating many hospitals to adopt ‘green’ practices, including adopting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Triple Bottom Line thinking, Circular Economy Practices and Environmental Management Systems.
‘Digital Healthcare’ is currently a major driving force for many countries to modernise their healthcare systems/hospitals and support integration between health and social care providers. In India, since the pandemic, telehealth has become popular. Central and state/union territory governments are encouraging/supporting hospitals in their digital
healthcare journey in a number of different ways. AIIMS-Jammu is making major investments in digital technologies and aims to create a regional digital healthcare hub.
AIIMS-Jammu is one of 22 new AIIMS institutions being established by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In order, to build capacity in Lean, Green and Digital health systems in Indian healthcare institutions, AIIMS Jammu and Monash University aims to organize a one-day workshop on Building Lean, Green and Digital Hospitals on Thursday, 2 nd February 2023 to be held at
AIIMS Jammu and also visit the Construction site of AIIMS at Vijaypur, Jammu.
The aim of the overseas delegation is to form close ties between AIIMS-Jammu and Monash University/University College London in Australia for future collaboration that will benefit all parties through research, teaching and exchange programs, said Dr Gupta .
