Question

HOM:

1.Consider current and future trends and forces in operations management excellence and assess how these can help Pediatric Hospitals and other similar health care organizations to become a sustainable model for high-reliability organization.

Answer 1

The current trends in Pediatric hospital are as following

1)Flexibility

• The flexibility depends on where the child is admitted.
• The trasition from semi-private to Private patient room is the most obvious ways to increase thbed flexibility and occupancy rate. This will raise the satisfactory level of the patient.
• They also provide three distict environment (Care giver zone, patient zone, family zone)

2) Patient safety:

This forms the major trend which prevents major health issues

• RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
• CPOE(Computerized Physician order Entry)
• EMR (Electronic Medical Record)
• Designing patient safety rooms like identical rooms

3)Optimum Healing environment

• This environment should have a Positive distraction(Pleasant smell, soothing music,access to indoor and out door healing garden)4

4)Technology integration:

• Digital office is the current trend, they adapt newer technology to solve the problem of patient and staff(e-mail, hand held device to get the updates instantly,remote monitoring)

5)Security and Disaster prepardness:

• This invloves the immediate hospital, Surrounding community, and region as a whole

The future trends in operation management excellence may depend upon the following to maintain a sustainable model for high-reliability organization

• Cost Containment
• Prevention and health promotion
• High technology care
• Evidence based practice
• Evidence based medicine
• Pediatric trauma care
• Family centred care

All these innovation can be done and initiated in hospital set up to become sustainable and become model for high reliable organization for other organization