
In the session “Resilience in Action: Infusion Centers as Catalysts for Innovation featuring Duke Health,” attendees will explore how infusion centers, following the challenges of the pandemic, can leverage resilience to address fundamental operational issues. The session emphasizes the necessity of confronting difficult problems, such as optimizing lab processes and decoupling clinic and infusion appointments. Duke Health shares a real-world example of adopting the nurse pull model overnight, showcasing the transformative impact on patient and nurse satisfaction, as well as operational efficiency. This session challenges the status quo, encouraging infusion leaders to embrace change and overcome perceived difficulties for long-term operational benefits.
Learning Objectives:
1. Strategies for Tackling Hard Operational Problems: Attendees will gain insights into identifying and addressing core challenges in infusion center operations, exploring strategies employed by Duke Health to confront and overcome difficult problems that seemed insurmountable.
2. Immediate Implementation of Operational Changes: Participants will learn from the Duke Health example about the potential benefits and adaptability of swift, decisive action in implementing operational changes, challenging the notion that significant transformations require prolonged change management.
3. Building Resilience and Openness to Innovation: This session aims to inspire infusion leaders to foster a culture of resilience and openness to innovation within their teams. By exploring Duke Health’s experience, attendees will understand how confronting major challenges head-on can cultivate optimism and readiness for future changes among staff.
Take the first step towards unlocking capacity, generating ROI, and increasing patient access.
If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.
As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.
Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.
An aging population
By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.
The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.