SimTecT Health Care Simulation

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SimTecT Health Care Simulation Conference 2006 http://www.simtecthealth.com

11-14 September 2006, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Education Centre

Simulation is for Patient Safety Theme

Contents 1 Action Agenda from Workshops 2 Further Reading 2.1 Introductory Papers 2.2 Safety & Quality 2.3 Recent International System Dynamics Conferences 2.4 Website Simulation Demos 2.5 A Relevant Local Quote

Action Agenda from Workshops

• Patient Hospital Flow frustration -understand and fix the system dynamics, including ED, Access Block, Elective Surgery, Right-sizing, not ‘going solid’ (but don’t look in the wrong place)
• Explicit Rationing around value for money
• Model the Policy Process and how to influence it
• Inpatient Medication Management Systems Improvement
• Clinical guidelines and protocols to reduce inappropriate variation
• nNderstanding perceptions and motivation
• More effective performance measures and incentives to improve system performance
• Linking what we are passionate about to the big picture
• Avoiding vicious circles and death spirals in clinical practice…..
• Accelerate Learning from natural and in silico experiments

Further Reading

Introductory Papers

• Jack Homer's and Bobby Milstein's Public Health intro to SD paper revised May 5 2006

• Eric Wolstenholme's The Potential of System Dynamics, The Leading Edge, October 2005, Issue 10, The NHS Confederation

• Also see HSDLib-SD#Introduction_to_Health_System_Dynamics

Safety & Quality

• Safety & Quality

Recent International System Dynamics Conferences

• http://www.systemdynamics.org/society_activities.htm

Website Simulation Demos

• http://www.healthsims.com.au
• http://www.xjtek.com

A Relevant Local Quote

”The surprising thing is that Australian healthcare, operating under such compromised arrangements, manages to be as good as it is. Good people can beat bad systems, at least for a time, but at enormous cost to themselves. Many are burned in the process. Institutionalised production systems destroy leadership talent and break the hearts of professionals of skill and integrity. Vital, customer-responsive organisations breed professional talent, active, committed leadership and display the high professional morale that, for most good people, is its own reward. " - John Patterson, ex-Victorian Health Commissioner (deceased).

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/177_06_160902/pat10463_fm.html