More than 200 Health managers Throughout Spain they have gathered from Thursday to Saturday in the XVII Project Management Course in the Euroforum Infantes of El Escorial in which they have participated about 3,000 professionals from the first edition.
Organized by the Spanish Society of Health Directors (SEDISA), with the collaboration of the Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine company, the course, accredited with 2 ECTS credits by the European University, is a call to the impulse of the transformation of the health system towards the quality and efficiency it needs.
To do this, in the words of José Soto Bonel, president of Sedisa, the course has focused “in training and strengthening of technical and transversal competences of professionals in areas such as administration of health organizations, transformational leadership, equipment management, innovation and quality.”
Thus, through a practical and collaborative methodology, with workshops and teamwork, the participants, he explained, “apply theoretical knowledge to concrete projects, facilitating the implementation of real improvements in their work environments; Update in trends and challenges of the sector, addressing current issues as new organizational models, corporate social responsibility, access to innovation and professional-patient relationship, and training health managers to lead in a healthy health environment in constant evolution ».
-For her part, María Fernanda Prado, general director of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Iberia, said that «training programs of this draft contribute to guaranteeing excellence in our National Health System and results in the quality of assistance that we are all at some point we will receive as patients who are or will be. It is precisely that commitment to patients that unites us and encourages our collaboration.
The program of this edition focused on five fundamental points of health management and the functions and responsibilities of health managers today: the future of health management, new forms of management and new organizational models; the future of health professions; corporate social responsibility; The future of hospital pharmacy, the new patient and mental health, and innovation in health management from the point of view of biomedical research.
Improving biomedical research through innovation in health management implies, according to Soto, “transforming the way in which the resources, processes and actors of health organizations are organized.” “As an example,” he continued, “an effective integration between health management and research, value -based financing, digitalization and use of real -time data must be established, foster the culture of innovation and measurement for continuous improvement.”
The course, inaugurated by Ana B. del Prado Catalina, purchasing director of the Health Hiring Agency of the Madrid Health Service, stood out for its methodology, “which makes it possible to work as a team, in the workshops, and develop concrete projects, which makes the course a different meeting that allows applying the knowledge acquired.
