On the Venturi effect
The "Venturi effect" applied to healthcare that gives rise to the name of the Project
It is necessary to ensure the greatest possible fluidity in patient care processes within healthcare organizations by managing patient demand and the ability to resolve activity.
How to get an overburdened healthcare system flowing again? Our proposal: The Venturi effect applied to healthcare. A metaphor transformed into a methodology to free up the healthcare process.
In each of the processes integrated into the continuity of the health process
THERE CAN BE NO EFFICIENCY IF THERE IS NO ALIGNMENT BETWEEN EACH STEP OF THE CARE PROCESS
The provision of healthcare services, from healthcare management to the entire patient care process, is segmented into different actors (retirement homes or other types of residences, primary care, rehabilitation, hospital care, public health, specialized care (and within these, specialized care, diagnostic tests, etc.). Sometimes with clear responsibilities and other times they overlap.
Furthermore, within each of them, there are a multitude of providers of different types and with their own organization and idiosyncrasies: public, private, chartered, etc. To make matters worse, within each of them, there is organizational and cultural heterogeneity.
The patient goes through them indiscriminately in their care process, which makes efficient management of the disease extremely difficult, especially when the pandemic generates queues and waits that hinder this transition.