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Innovating health care: key characteristics of human-centered design

• Human-centered design is about understanding human needs and how design can respond to these needs. With its systemic humane approach and creativity, human-centered design can play an essential role in dealing with today’s care challenges.
• In this article, we address the three key characteristics of human-centered design, focusing on its implementation in health care:
• developing an understanding of people and their needs;
• engaging stakeholders from early on and throughout the design process;
• adopting a systems approach by systematically addressing interactions between the micro-, meso- and macro-levels of sociotechnical care systems

Source: Oxford Academic

Human factors: the pharmaceutical supply chain as a complex sociotechnical system

• The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated preexisting weaknesses in the global supply chain.
• Regional assessments by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), and independent consultants, have demonstrated various contributory causal factors requiring changes in policy, relationships, and incentives within the dynamic and developing networks.
• Human factors and ergonomics (HFE) is an approach that encourages sociotechnical systems thinking to optimize the performance of systems that involve human activity.

Source: Oxford Academic

Will the COVID-19 pandemic transform infection prevention and control in surgery? Seeking leverage points for organizational learning

• In response to the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare systems worldwide have stepped up their infection prevention and control efforts in order to reduce the spread of the infection.
• This paper aims to illustrate how adopting a human factors and ergonomics perspective can provide insights into how clinical work systems have been adapted and reconfigured in order to keep patients and staff safe.
• For achieving sustainable change in IPCS practices in surgery during COVID-19 and beyond we need to enhance organizational learning potentials.

Source: Oxford Academic

Executive summary of the meeting of the 2020 ashp Commission on goals: preparing the healthcare workforce for a digital future

• Advances in healthcare technology such as digital therapeutics, personalized medicine, virtual health, and robotics are rapidly changing how healthcare is practiced and delivered.
• Increased data access and sharing via digital solutions can prioritize personalization and enhance the patient experience.
• With the rapid introduction of these products and services for use by clinicians and patients, health systems will need to embrace new business, care delivery, and risk models to create affordable, high-quality healthcare solutions.

Source: Oxford Academic

Management of a parenteral opioid shortage using ASHP guidelines

• Management of an acute shortage of parenteral opioid products at a large hospital through prescribing interventions and other guideline-recommended actions is described.
• In early 2018, many hospitals were faced with a shortage of parenteral opioids that was predicted to last an entire year.
• The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has published guidelines on managing drug product shortages.
• This article describes the application of these guidelines to manage the parenteral opioid shortage and the impact on opioid dispensing that occurred in 2018.

Source: Oxford Academic

COVID-19 pandemic preparedness: A practical guide from an operational pharmacy perspective

• This study aims to describe our medical center’s pharmacy services preparedness process and offer guidance to assist other institutions in preparing for surges of critically ill patients such as those experienced during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
• The leadership of a department of pharmacy at an urban medical center in the US epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic proactively created a pharmacy action plan in anticipation of a surge in admissions of critically ill patients with COVID-19.
• Each hospital should view the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to internally review and enhance workflow processes, initiatives that can continue even after the resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: Oxford Academic

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