Four Key Findings about Australian Healthcare’s Leadership Gap
At a time when healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges, are we doing all we can to select, identify, and develop effective leaders? Generally, healthcare has lagged behind other industries in a deliberate, effective approach to talent and leadership. Part of the gap is due to the historic focus on technical skills in doctors, nurses, and other providers, some of whom rise to leadership roles. Even in administrators, trained to lead healthcare organization
Remote Patient Monitoring can reduce Patient readmissions
Hospital patient readmission is stressful for everyone – the patient and their loved ones, the medical staff, and insurance companies providing benefits. For several major disease populations, one out of every five patients return within 30 days of their first admission. These patients top 3 medical conditions (Heart Failure, Diabetes, and Pneumonia) contribute to a combined 20% readmission rate. Foremost, these rates indicate a grave risk to the patient’s health, but the tre
Creating personal responsibility in healthcare with Intelligent Virtual Assistants
Wearable technology and digital sensors are changing the face of personal healthcare. We can now track and receive data on many different devices. From counting steps, to tracking your heart rate and other vitals, we have more real-time health monitoring data than we ever imagined. For people to continue to use these devices it’s essential to contextualize this big data in one easy to use application created to promote personal health responsibility. According to the Institut
Innovative ways to Improve Doctor / Patient Communication
Our partners at Select International in the USA have continued to implement medical practitioner selection and development projects in an era of healthcare reform. Australian healthcare facilities also recognize that more is expected of medical practitioners, particularly in consideration of the behavioural and leadership skills needed by their group or their employer – and we’ve not, historically, given them the tools to be successful. For several years Select Internationa
8 Critical Skills for the perfect Physiotherapist
A Colleague of mine led a discussion recently with fifty final year physiotherapy students. They have all been through a few clinical rotations, and are only a few months from starting their careers. Their entire focus in recent months has been on absorbing all of the knowledge and skills they can. The topic was behavioral skills necessary for success. What had they learned in their interactions with patients, families, and other professionals? The discussion was about the co
