Topics | Agenda | Confirmed Speakers | Preconference | Program by day

   
HMA 2007 Final Draft of Tracks Topics for Workshop Sessions  
 
Benefit From Special Plenary Briefings from International Experts

  • The Patient Safety Solutions and their impact on health care delivery
  • Benchmarking hospital service - how do you know you are good?
  • Two Views of Risk Management:
    1. How Quality and Risk Management can support your Hospital's Strategy
    2. How Quality and Risk Management can support your Department's Strategy
  • The Physician and the Hospital:
    1. What Doctors should do to help improve hospital service, revenues and costs.
    2. What hospital managers can do to make doctors cooperate
  • Anatomy of Errors:
    1. The ABC's of Technology errors are just as bad for patient safety as medication errors and what every hospital manager can do to prevent these.
    2. Non technology errors: Why they occur and what we can do about them
  • DevelopingYour Hospital Career for a Different Future:
    1. Expanding the Innovation Horizon: A Hospital Management Perspective
    2. What you can do to build your career based on how the Hospital of the Future will be work.

Track 1. Hospital Administration

• Goal Setting and Performance Metrics in Hospitals: Measures of Quality and Safety, What are the Best Measures for Maximum Performance?
• The Role of Doctors in Hospitals: 
1. Motivating doctors: To help increase hospital revenues, reduce costs or to be otherwise cooperative.
2. Doctor Credentialing: Is it necessary, what are the best practices, why, and how to do it, or not.
• Healthcare in the not so distant future:
1. The Future of Healthcare and Healthcare Professionals... A Crystal Ball That We All Need to Look Into.
2. How Changes in Nurse Staffing Affect All Hospital Operations: 14 Forces to Use
• Creating Organizational Excellence - One Service Experience at a Time

 

Track 2. Operations Efficiency

• How to Make Your Hospital Hassle Free: Better, Faster, Cheaper, Safer. Dream or Reality?
• 1. The Ten Most Recurring Service Defects in Hospitals and What You Can Do About Them and 2. Operation Theatre Optimization
• The New Paradigms About Bedside Care: Improving Safety, Reliability, Response, and Patient Centered Systems.
• How to Increase Quality Without Paying a High Price in Patient Care

 

Track 3. Managing Patient Safety

• To Err is Inhuman:
1. Fool Proofing Potential Errors, Establishing Control and Assuring Sustainability.
2. Patient Safety: Transforming an Organization
• Improving Patient Safety by Improving Communication Skills of Hospital Staff With Patient (and Family) and Building Trust and Confidence.
• The role of Risk Management in Patient:
1. Patient Safety is More Important Than You Think: How to Organize and Implement a Program for Optimum Results
2. UnderstandingPatient Safety From a Risk Management Perspective
• Sentinel Events: What Every Hospital Department Can Do to Organize Study and Prevent Them.

 

Track 4. Quality Management and Customer Service

• Seven Useful Ideas in Improving Patient Flow: If it is Good for the Patient is it Always Good for the Hospital?
• 10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Service.
• Managing Continuous Quality Improvement by Using Scientific Evidence and Research Methodology.
• Cultural Competency Training: Best and Promising Practices on Caring for a Global Patient Population

 

Track 5. Technological Developments / E Commerce

• Maximizing Equipment:
1. How to Improve Patient Safety and Comfort, Efficiency of Service and Reliability of Results by UsingEquipment Properly
2. How to Graduate from Correction to Prevention to Prediction of Equipment Breakdown and Maintenance
• Integrating Technology, Medicine and Management Into Fast, Reliable and Cost Efficient Service to Patients.
• Understanding New Technologies for All Departments:
1. The State of the Art Uses of IMT (Information and Medical Technology) in Today's Hospital Departments
2. Motivating Hospital Staff to Use Information Technology - Lessons Learned from the Field and the Lab
• What Every Hospital Manager Needs to Know About Ever-Present Information Technology:
1. How IT Enables Us to Promise Patient Safety, to Improve Quality of Medical Care, and Realize Medical Error Prevention.
2. Preparing Your Department for the Future of IT in Hospital Departments

 

Track 6. Essential Skills for Hospital Managers

• We Sell and Persuade More than We Think: Skills Every Professional in the Hospital Needs to Influence Patients, Families, Peers and Seniors.
• By Popular Demand! We Negotiate More than We Think: Develop Negotiating Skills that Every Manager Needs.
• Leadership and the Human Side of Enterprise
1. By Popular Demand! 10 Tried and Proven Steps to Improving Your Leadership Skills. 
2. What Every Hospital Manager Needs to Know About Group Culture, Motivating for Performance, Developing Peer Relationships and Managing Conflict.
• The Science of Coaching with EQ.

 

Track 7. Marketing, Sales and PR for Hospitals

• How to Apply Consumer Marketing Tools to Improve Your Department's Revenues?
• Building Hospital Reputation to Drive Business. How PR Can Impact Perception
• Value Creation in Hospitals as a New Competitive Advantage: Evolving Trends in Medical Travel
• Why and How Every Employee is the "Brand Ambassador" of the Hospital.

 

Track 8. Revenue, Finance and Statistics for the uninitiated

• By Popular Demand: The REAL Secrets on How to Cut Costs Without Sacrificing Service Through Health Promotion, Prevention, Waste Elimination and Process Review.
• Finance for the Non-Financial Managers:
1. Understanding Your Hospital Department's Financial Results – What the Numbers Mean.
2. Putting the Customer Horse Before the Budget Cart - the New Budgeting Paradigm and Policies
• Back to Basics:
1. How to price your units service to maximize revenues.
2. How to "Market" Your Department to Physicians
• Business Skills for Hospital Managers

 

CEO Forum

A specially invited expert will present and a panel of CEOs will react – followed by discussion and further interaction among CEOs present:

What makes a hospital Excellent? How do you know how good you are – and what should your benchmarks be?
Should there be more health insurance? Who should pay for the poor? These and other exciting topics, vital to health care delivery will be discussed!

 

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