1. No. 164: Quality Assurance and Effectiveness in Hospitals:
Rossana Rivas, Peru - Senior Advisor
WHO Collaborating Center for Health Technology Management
Technical Services Partnership, University of Vermont
Training Program: Ministry of Health
Participants: Hospital engineers, Electronic engineers, Architects.
Title: Healthcare technology planning & management
Medical devices overview
Basic biomedical equipment
Surgery devices
Imaging systems
Laboratory equipment
Infrastructure requirements
Technology planning
New Technology Assessment
Technology Replacement Planning
Technology Budgeting
Technology Acquisition and Deployment
Compliance with Standards and Accreditation
Patient safety
Setting up a Health Technology Department
Inventory definition and physical audit
Maintenance assessment and options
Medical equipment technical services plan
Preventative and corrective maintenance
Clinical engineering consultation
Resources
Staffing
Test and repair equipment
Computerized medical equipment management system
Space requirements
Training requirements
Poster #:
Session name: POS2
Day: Friday 14 December 2018
No. 164: Quality Assurance and Effectiveness in Hospitals:
Strategic actions in Peru
Conclusions
The use of information and communication technologies for health and health technology health systems in Peru is increasing, also the promotion of the creation of multidisciplinary teams throughout the country; the training program is consistent to the process and the results expected.
Health professional teams will improve the quality of outputs at health services: management, effectiveness, quality assurance whether preventive or corrective.
The program contribute to improve the results expected of the health technology public investments.
References
Peruvian MoH,
Social Security System of Peru,
Comptroller General Office of Peru,
Sciences, Technology & Innovation Council of Peru,
Virtual Course for the Americas: Healthcare Technology Planning and Management Over the Life Cycle
J. Tobey Clark, USA - Director
WHO Collaborating Center for Health Technology Management
Technical Services Partnership, University of Vermont
Project Goal: To build capacity in the areas of health technology
(HT) planning and management for the Ministry of Health (MoH)
in Peru and to provide training for auditors of the HT program in
MoH hospitals.
Objectives:
To provide participants with the basic knowledge of the guiding principles of Health Technology Management and Planning to improve the Quality of Health Technology.
Strengthening and development Health Technology Quality Assurance and Effectiveness management, planning and control outputs at public health organizations.
Development of Management, Planning and Health Technology Planning and Assessment skills and capacities aimed to multidisciplinary teams.
Contribute to improve the assessment and control of health technology public costs.
Methodology:
Class room sessions are complemented with virtual learning: webinars and online course platform use.
Participants will receive PDFs of the presentations that include text, pictures, diagrams, flow charts, figures, and other specially designed for the course.
Training Program: Comptrollers Office
Participants: physicians, hospital engineers, electronic engineers, architects and physicians.
Title: Health Technology Audit Course
Health technology planning & management overview
Medical devices overview
Health Technology Maintenance and Quality Assurance
Computerized Medical Equipment Management Systems
Patient safety
Medical technology compliance with Standards and Accreditation
International standards
Peruvian regulations
Accreditation requirements from Joint Commission International
Survey process
Pre-survey data gathering
Survey opening meetings
Review of results
Report development
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