Sunday, July 20 to Tuesday, July 22...

Sunday, July 20 to Tuesday, July 22 2003

The subsequent time of perioperative nursing is of great be of importance to to AORN and its members. It is vital that surgical team members grade out of their silos and start working together to clear up the problems that currently exist in health care, as well as the moot points health care faces during the nearest five years. Determining a yet to be direction for both the industry and the Association, however, requires as greatly information as possible. In light of this, AORN newly sponsored a high-level strategic business forum titled "Executive Symposium: Envisioning the coming of Surgery" at Beaver small river Colo. The senior level surgical arena leaders who attended included suckles surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, association leaders, and members of industry. Speakers included Russell Coile, Jr editor of Russ Coile's Health inclinations and a national health care futurist whose predictions about the futurity of health care have had a 90% accuracy rate, and Charles H Scoggin, MD president and chief executive officer of Sagemed, Inc, Boulder Colo a company focused forward creating awareness and understanding of novel and innovative health care returnss and services.

SPEAKERS

The discourse began on Sunday evening with a cocktail reception sponsored by means of Karl Storz Endoscopy and dinner. After dinner, Dr Scoggin quick in emergenciesed a slide show and spoke about an early period of American history in an entertaining presentation sponsored by means of Integrated Medical Systems, Inc, titled "A consider at Health Care in the American West." Dr Scoggin told attendees in what manner health care helped shape the American West, from the interesting medical race who populated the region and set their imprint on it, to the impact of tuberculosis, which, according to Dr Scoggin, was largely responsible for the migration west. The higher altitudes in the West were study to be beneficial to tuberculosis patients. "The association between the West and health care is remarkably strong but often unacknowledged," said Dr Scoggin.

in succession Monday morning, attendees heard Coile speak forward the "Operating Room of the Future: Strategies for a Consumer Driven Market." The session was sponsored by means of Owens & Minor. In addition, 3M healthcare sponsored distribution of Coile's booklet Futurescan 2003: A Forecast of Healthcare sweeps 2003-2007 to all attendees. During his presentation, Coile discussed factors look forward toed to influence health care in the to come One of these factors is that health care is wait fored to become a more consumer-l market as patients educate themselves about their health care choices, including alternative and complementary therapies. Coile noted that hospitals will have to cope with increasing consumer demands for health care services as the Baby hum generation ages. In addition, Baby Boomer want access to the best health care and the latest technology.

Other factors that will influence health care are that "employer and health plans are placing increasing emphasis upon demonstrating quality as well as holding down medical costs" a employers and health care plans are experimenting with paying bonuses to providers who improve quality and patient safety. Hospitals and physicians will have to contend based on quality and technology.

Coile also said that guidance will play an increasing part in creating "report cards to measure clinical issues and patient satisfaction." Government programs, of that kind as Medicare, may provide financial incentives to health care providers who exce national quality benchmarks; however, as consumer continue to demand more of health care and sumptuousnesss continue to rise, Coile asks "How prolonged will employers and consumers continue to subsidize medical inflation?"

Labor shortages are another issue affecting health care, said Coile, and this is an area where conduct may step in, as they already have in California, on enacting nurse-to-patient ratios. These programs do not ease the labor shortage, however, and Coile notes that there are no easy answers.

modern technology also will have an efficiency as hospitals install the latest expensive high-tech equipment to confront the demands of Baby Boomer patients. Other technologies that could have an drift include digital (ie, paperless) hospitals, genomics, and the ability to better manage and monitor high-risk patients. After Coile's session, attendees were given the opportunity to discuss his points. Coile then l them in an exercise to create a list of issues they thinking would be prevalent in health care in the futurity The list attendees created included

* service issues, consumerism, and women as decision makers;

* economics, expenses and revenues;

* technology expansion, education, and standards;

* workforce issues;

* direction regulatory issues;

* patient safety;

* tillage and collaboration (ie, aligning incentives);

* nontraditional settings;

* algorithm-driven care;

* patient-centered, high-quality care;

* competition based forward outcomes data (eg, report cards);