From hospital to home care: what logistics can do for healthcare
During TKI Dinalog's Innovation Conference, the session "Care Logistics in Motion - Solutions for the Future of Health and Care" focused on how logistics can contribute to the major challenges within healthcare. With increasing pressures from population growth and demographic trends, smart, efficient and sustainable solutions are needed more than ever.
What is healthcare logistics?
Together, the speakers explored exactly what care logistics means and the role it can play in improving care processes. By looking at the organisation and alignment of people, resources and processes, care logistics can help increase the quality of care while easing pressure on staff and resources.
Different perspectives from research and practice
The three speakers each brought their own perspective:
Rob van der Mei (CWI) shared insights from the project SPRINTER, focusing on data-driven solutions for better healthcare logistics decisions.
Gréanne Leeftink (University of Twente) focused on the logistics challenges within the project Ontzorgen in de VVT-zorg (Nursing, Care and Home Care) and the opportunities to organise processes more intelligently.
onDennis Moeke (HAN University of Applied Sciences) presented his vision from the Logistics for Healthy Healthcare project, in which logistics is seen as key to future-proof healthcare.
Learning from each other
A key conclusion from the session was that different application areas within healthcare can learn a lot from each other. Although the contexts differ - from hospital care to home care - there are overlapping themes and solution directions that are broadly applicable. Exchanging knowledge and experiences will create a richer basis for innovative healthcare logistics solutions.
Visual report
During the session, a live drawing was created that creatively captures the key points and insights. This visual representation shows how healthcare logistics can contribute to future-proof healthcare.
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