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JAMMU: Prof (Dr) Shakti Kumar Gupta, ED & CEO, AIIMS Jammu, informed that a delegation of healthcare experts from overseas will be visiting AIIMS-Jammu for three days from February 1 to 3, 2023 to exchange ideas with their counterparts in India.
“Their visit to Jammu will include holding meetings with senior executives and clinicians at AIIMS-Jammu and holding a workshop entitled ‘Building Lean, Green and Digital Hospitals’, said Prof (Dr) Shakti Gupta.
Led by Professor Amrik Singh Sohal from Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia, he added, the delegation will include Prof Julie Wolfram Cox (Monash University), Prof Julie Davies (University College London, UK), Associate Professor Glen Croy (Monash University), and two of the leading consultant surgeons from Melbourne- Dr Geoff Cox and Dr Janet Hsuan.
Prof (Dr) Shakti Gupta briefed that ‘Lean in Healthcare’ became popular in many Western countries almost two decades ago. Based on the Toyota Production System, Lean focusses in eliminating waste and optimizing processes.
Resource scarcity, climate change and environment impact from our processes and wastes are motivating many hospitals to adopt ‘green’ practices, including adopting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Triple Bottom Line thinking, Circular Economy Practices and Environmental Management Systems.
‘Digital Healthcare’ is currently a major driving force for many countries to modernise their healthcare systems/hospitals and support integration between health and social care providers. In India, since the pandemic, telehealth has become popular. Central and state/union territory governments are encouraging/supporting hospitals in their digital healthcare journey in a number of different ways. AIIMS-Jammu is making major investments in digital technologies and aims to create a regional digital healthcare hub.
AIIMS-Jammu is one of 22 new AIIMS institutions being established by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In order, to build capacity in Lean, Green and Digital health systems in Indian healthcare institutions, AIIMS Jammu and Monash University aims to organize a one-day workshop on Building Lean, Green and Digital Hospitals on Thursday, 2nd February 2023 to be held at AIIMS Jammu and also visit the Construction site of AIIMS at Vijaypur, Jammu.
The aim of the overseas delegation is to form close ties between AIIMS-Jammu and Monash University/University College London in Australia for future collaboration that will benefit all parties through research, teaching and exchange programs, said Dr Gupta.
