We of Opuspac, We are industrial and many of the procedures in hospitals are automatically compared with the usual industry procedures.
Em 1911 - Frederick WinslowTaylor wrote his book “Principles of Scientific Management" and it was a special event for the industry. It advocated the division of tasks by specialties, measurement of each task and its optimizations. So in the industry, for a long time now, we have been measuring all tasks in order to optimize them.
Medicine was beginning to take off at that time, but it would take Alexander Fleming until 1928 to discover penicillin, which was also another landmark event.
A modern hospital has exclusively clinical tasks and others that we can consider similar to other sectors, whether industrial or administrative. Recognizing these classifications among activities is perhaps the first step in management in many hospitals, where this division between the characteristics of each task is not yet well defined.
For example, a professional in a hospital who performs a task and does what is necessary can spend more than 30 years doing the same procedure without anyone issuing a warning that his activity is only 30% efficient and should improve.
With so many logistics and production tasks, such as dose unitarization, hospitals have begun to absorb professionals from the industry, focusing more seriously on productivity. Likewise in the USA, hospital management is carried out by specialized managers and not by clinical professionals in the health area.
The doctor who graduated with the discipline that each patient is different and that each disease is a case, has difficulty standardizing operations and continues to consider that each problem is a case that must be resolved separately.
The bases of good management are: standardizing, carrying out a comparative assessment (benchmarking) measure and correct. Therefore, finding a professional measuring the execution times of tasks and movements within the hospital should be more common.
Today more than ever, a hospital is a multidisciplinary place where managers, lawyers, clinical engineers, administrators, logistics managers, and human resources specialists all work together, all collaborating so that the complex “hospital machine” and the professional work of doctors can be carried out in the best conditions.
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