Managing risk at healthcare organizations: A 360º approach

 Hospitals live with potential threats which may cause the organization various types of damages such as financial, cultural, social image and/or legal. The losses and exposure occur when a hospital fails to implement a programme adequately. Hospital’s exposure can be even greater if the injured party is a patient. Hospitals have a special duty of care toward patients, especially a patient who, because of his/her illness or condition, is particularly vulnerable to violence, abuse, theft and other acts.

Read more about this @ Modern Medicine

No. of hospitals and no. of beds in Delhi (Data as given in TOI)

Private hospitals/nursing homes 684                17,418
Cental govt.                                  26                 10,811
Delhi govt.                                   38                   9,894
Municipal corporations               61                   4,138
NDMC                                          4                      220
Other autonomous bodies            2                        117


 

How many of us know about the web scale discovery tools? Do we really need to know about it?
Find a little information about it and how it help researchers in efficient retrieval process and how librarians can help in facilitating such services

Following are the benefits of discovery tools:
It provides-

• Single Point of Entry to several resources
• Pre-harvested
• Centralized Index
• Vendor neutral
• Relevancy
• Robust Features
• Customizable

World wide majority of the universities are using the discovery tools. Few of them are :  Serials Solutions Summon ( It is being used at MDX Uni); 360 search; OCLCs WorldCat Local; ExLibris' Primo, Aleph, Metalib; VUfind; EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS)  
There are many open source resource discovery tools also available like:

• Blacklight
• LibraryFind
• Scriblio
• SOPAC
• VuFind

Commercial Indian products:

• Knimbus ( It is being used in Delhi University, JNU..)
• NLP Labs Pvt. Ltd.

If anybody is interested to setup discovery tool in their library needs to see its features just like does it provide:

• A centralized index—to the article level & full text
•  Harvested from many sources (not from Google scholar )
•  Integrated with full text delivery/ Something you license
•  NOT federated/brokered/broadcast search
•  Understands library's holdings/rights
•  Each vendor has agreements with several content suppliers. (Ask... How many ??) ; In addition to this harvest locally held material like catalog and IR.
• see the content coverage and agreement with publishers.
• Relevance ranking cannot be compared with Google page rank
• 
  
• Copied from miscellaneous sources

An article worth reading: www.ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/1697/31.pdf

• Key note address by the Minister of Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad,

• Addressing the 33rd Convocation of PGIMER, Chandigarh, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister for Health & Family Welfare that said a series of reforms in medical education have been undertaken to overcome the acute shortage of human resources in health at various levels.
• The number of MBBS seats has increased by 46% and PG seats by 70% in the last five years.
• The availability of MBBS seats has gone up from 33,567 to 45,629 and the number of PG seats increased from 13,838 to 22,850.
• 72 new medical colleges, including six AIIMS, were established raising the number from 290 to 362.
• The Medical Colleges at the six new AIIMS have started functioning with admission of 50 students each in September, 2012.
• Another important initiative has been the launch of the single entrance test in the name of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to UG and PG medical courses being conducted from the academic year 2013-14 to save the students from hardships faced in appearing in multiple entrance exams across the country and bring uniformity in the standards of admission to the medical course to promote merit.
• Several other proposals are being considered by the Ministry to give a fillip to the medical education sector, especially increasing the intake of MBBS students, during the 12th Five Year Plan, beginning this year. 
• Source: PG Blazer

Speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of the 33rd annual convocation of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
I am happy to be here at the 33rd Annual Convocation of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research at Chandigarh. The last time that I had the opportunity to attend the Annual Convocation of PGI was in 2008, when I was the Union Minister of External Affairs. I am delighted to be back once again after 5 years, on the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of the foundation of PGI.

The PGIMER came into existence in 1962 thanks to the wisdom and foresight of Sardar Partap Singh Kairon, the then Chief Minister of Punjab and the hospital was inaugurated by Pandit Nehru.

This Institute was established as a center of excellence to develop postgraduate medical education in as many branches as possible and produce specialists in several disciplines of medicine. The basic idea was that these specialists would spread out across the country to various medical colleges and institutions and in turn, set up a nucleus of excellence in each of these institutions. It is a matter of pride that PGI alumni can be found today in all parts of the country and the institution is known for its comprehensive facilities for teaching, research and patient care. I compliment all those who have been associated with the establishment and growth of this great institution.

PGI’s Mission “Service to the community, care of the needy and research for the good of all” sums up the important role that the Institute is playing in the Health Care Sector in India. 

More information at:  Press Information Bureau

Progress in the health sector is key to India's future prominence in the world, says the President

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the XXXIII Convocation of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research at Chandigarh on March 15, 2013.

Speaking on the occasion, the President said progress in the health sector is key to India`s future prominence in the world. A nation`s productivity depends on the health and well-being of its citizens. Economic growth that does not go hand in hand with reduction in avoidable mortality and ill health is neither sustainable nor desirable.

The President called for development of world class centres of excellence focused not only on traditional specialties but also on cross-cutting themes such as infectious diseases, vaccine development and regenerative sciences. He said the PGI must rise to be one of the top medical universities in the world within a specific period of time.

Union Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Shri Kapil Sibal presented an album of PGI Golden Jubilee Commemorative Postal Stamp to the President on the occasion. 

Source : Press Information Bureau 

Importance of Information Literacy 

I was struck by the response of one of the senior resident when I asked him about importance of taking Information Literacy classes. He said that it is not required. Feel like asking him does he know about Search Tags..I am sure answer will be No.
Hope such studies : 'A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log'  in BMC Med Inform Decis Mak will help many students, researchers ....in formulating the search queries and will help in obtaining results accurate & faster than before.

Health gets over 28 percent hike in budget

New Delhi, Feb 28, 2013 (IANS)

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has proposed a hike in India's health budget by over 28 percent in 2013-14 to Rs.37,330 crore (Rs.373 million), with special focus on medical education, training and research.

From: Deccan Herald

 Union Budget: Education sector gets 17% jump