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Healthcare management

Transform healthcare organisations into more effective, more agile organisations that ensure excellent treatment and make the entire institution patient-centred. This change will only be possible with the participation of professionals, as they are the ones who know where the problems are and how to solve them.

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Health systems in many developed countries are going through critical times due to several factors. The needs of the patient-client-citizen, the high cost of supply with new therapies, ever more expensive diagnostics and the requirements for obtaining new medicines, together with an ageing population and the rise of lifestyle-related diseases, mean that both supply and demand are growing at a rate the system cannot sustain.

If we add the fragmentation of our patients’ care, the high variability of treatments and reactive medicine, we can agree that we must optimise the health system and change how institutions are organised, using the most advanced methodology so that the efforts of professionals are as efficient as possible and so that their own participation and that of patients transforms the whole system, achieving results that are relevant to the patient.

The volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the world around us (VUCA WORLD) increase the need to transform healthcare organisations into more efficient, more agile organisations that ensure excellent treatment and make the entire institution patient-centred. This change will only be possible with the participation of professionals, as they are the ones who know where the problems are and how to solve them.

What we do

Strategy. Efficiency. Improvement. Safety.

These are the key points for a healthcare organisation to work while optimising its resources.

Strategy

Advice and strategic support on healthcare management and health systems, for governments, health regions, hospitals and primary care centres.
Support and guidance in the transformation of health services / management of cultural change.
Implementation of improvement proposals.
Drivers of change.
Supporting healthcare organisations in their transformation.
Diagnosis, implementation and monitoring of processes.
Design of KPIs and dashboards to monitor the deployment of the strategy.

Resource efficiency

Optimisation of organisational and clinical processes in health.
Optimisation of patient flows, information and materials logistics.
Support in the design phases of new facilities and in transfers between hospitals.
We support the integration of the different services that share patients, to facilitate flow efficiency and agreed protocols.
Implementation of comprehensive surgical block management systems.

Improvement of clinical practice

We support the integration of the different care settings, because the patient-citizen does not see the boundaries between types of care: Primary Care, Hospital Care, Mental Health Care and Social-Health Care.
We avoid fragmentation to prevent redundant consultations, tests and medication that consume unnecessary resources.
We analyse routine clinical practice to provide new techniques and protocols that result in better care for patients and professionals.

Patient safety

We provide knowledge and methodology for the detection, reporting and resolution of patient safety incidents.
We build working networks between the different care settings and services.
We help agree nursing care plans integrated into the agreed protocols of each process.

Healthcare organisations need to be transformed into more efficient, more agile organisations, to ensure excellent treatment and to ensure that the whole institution is patient-centred.

Who we are

Our results speak for us in the transformation of leading healthcare institutions.

ESSENTIA members have extensive clinical experience, from residency to specialisation and head of department, and in management, from process and innovation management to the general management of first-class hospitals and primary care, together with experts in engineering applied to health, in the institutions mentioned.

Anna Ochoa de Echagüen Aguilar

aochoa@essentiahm.com

Internal medicine physician, ESADE MBA and IESE PDG (General Management Programme). More than 25 years of career in different centres (Mútua de Terrassa, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (HUVH), ICS-IAS Girona) as resident, attending physician, centre director and medical director of the ICS-IAS alliance (2012-2015). Medical Director of HUVH (2015-2019).

Marc Sales i Coll

msales@essentiahm.com

Industrial Engineer and MBA. Expert in operations management, Lean and processes in the healthcare sector. Process Engineer at ICS-IAS (2014-2016). Senior consultant at IHS Medtronic and coordinator of the Surgical Process group (2016-2018). Deputy Director of Processes and Innovation at HUVH (2018-2019).