Hospital improvement projects

Our fellows spend almost three months observing patients and staff at hospital departments all around Denmark. The outcome is numerous documented needs and many of those are structural needs, that are connected to how routines are executed internally in the hospitals. Our Open Innovation Officer helps the hospital departments choose a need to be solved and then set up a focused and accelerated improvement project. The project group consist of doctors, nurses, assistants, secretaries and more from the department. They develop new solutions, test, measure, improve and end up with recommendations for changes. The needs can be focused on workflow, organisation, communication and more and the results can be better work environment, patient safety and patient care.

Katrine Lind

Improved rounds with structured communication

When doing rounds, clinicians don't necessarily update each other on a patient. Sometimes information is lost and patients might end up waiting for their treatment and spend more time at the hospital than needed. A local project at Nykøbing Falster Hospital has helped clinicians communicate in a structured way for the benefit of the patients and the work environment too.