SINGAPORE, Sept. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- In one of the most
thought provoking and engaging presentations at last year's
Hospital Efficiency Asia 2010 conference, Amir Firdaus Abdullah,
Chief Executive Officer of Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur spoke
about real-time bed management, and explained why bed management is
to be designed to develop organizational-wide strategic
management.
In his presentation, Amir talks
about the importance knowing where the patients are and why the
application should provide real-time views of bed occupancy across
the whole enterprise.
"By monitoring how patients and
staff move through the facility, hospitals can evaluate and improve
the facility's overall workflow, delivering equipment and services
in a timelier manner, and directing the flow of patients more
intelligently. The result is faster turnaround, higher satisfaction
and a lower per-patient cost of service delivery," explained
Amir.
Joining Amir, who will be speaking
again
at 2nd Annual Hospital Efficiency
Asia 2011 conference, is Dr.
Umapathy Panyala, Chief Operating Officer of Apollo Hospitals,
Bangalore.
Dr. Panyala explains that when it
comes to building efficient hospitals, service delivery and
hospitality go hand-in-hand in healthcare, but cost will be the
greatest hurdle in providing both services economically.
"Cost effectiveness will be the
greatest challenge in providing these options. Realizing that
hospitality is an accepted ingredient in healthcare delivery, it is
mandatory that one starts initiating projects in this direction.
Already, there is demand from certain quarters of the society for
these patient-centric amenities and this therefore becomes
imperative for hospitals to provide it," he said.
2nd Annual
Hospital Efficiency
Asia 2011 will be held in Kuala
Lumpur
from 16th - 17th of
November 2011, together with a site tour on 15 November
2011 and post-conference workshops on 18 November 2011.
Drop an email to [email protected] to
register for the event or visit www.hospitalefficiency-asia.com for
more information.
SOURCE International Quality &
Productivity Center (IQPC)