How the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the healthcare safety and quality initiatives set forth in KSA’s Vision 2030
The Saudi Vision 2030 plan, which came out in 2017, has made it possible for digital change to happen.(Sabetkish & Rahmani, 2021). COVID-19 made it possible to talk about and test this shift. It has put the country’s digital infrastructure to the test and shown decision-makers where there were holes. The adoption, use, and participation of Saudi citizens in the digitization of these services and communications has been tested on a national scale.(Sabetkish & Rahmani, 2021). As part of the community-wide efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the Saudi Arabian government and the private health care industry made new digital health solutions and turned-on existing ones. In Saudi Arabia, it might be investigated more how AI could be used in the future to combine different data sources during outbreaks. The use of mobile apps could also be made better and easier if there were less of them and their functions were combined.(Sabetkish & Rahmani, 2021)
Barriers that the COVID-19 pandemic has created
The COVID-19 epidemic hurt the world’s ability to provide and use necessary health care services in a big way. Taking care of critically ill patients with COVID-19 pneumonia during the pandemic was the hardest thing that intensive care medicine has ever had to do. Thanks to the work of intensivists and many other specialists, hospitals now have up to 300% more beds for critical patients. This creates a care and logistics challenge that has never been seen before. In the same way, the rise in global use of many common medicines used in intensive care medicine, such as those used for sedation and pain relief, has made it necessary to use other, less ideal options. For example, because patients couldn’t use public transportation and were afraid of getting COVID-19 sickness, patients with gastrointestinal problems were affected more by the lockdown than other patients. During this pandemic, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has had to deal with several problems, but it was able to take steps to limit the damage as much as possible. Protective measures include building COVID-19 healthcare centers, giving everyone free treatment and health care, putting fever clinics in all cities and public and private hospitals, and making sure that only people with COVID-19 symptoms could go there. (Cascella et al., 2022)
Role of the healthcare quality improvement specialist to mitigate these barriers and drive quality in healthcare in the future
Many international health care systems, including Saudi Arabia, reacted quickly to the pandemic by putting in place new health and safety measures and precaution protocols. During emergencies like pandemics, it’s important to have leadership at every level to coordinate, make rules, and make real changes that last. During a pandemic, plan-do-check-act cycles must be quick and flexible in order to improve quality. During this pandemic, it has been important for business quality representatives, surgery operations, local hospital liaisons, and other department executives to work together right away to make decisions in a unified way. This has helped our community in the best way possible. With this kind of cooperation, the whole organization was able to move quickly and respond as a single unit. One of the things that needed to be done was to put off procedures that weren’t essential. Other things that were done were setting up an on-site overflow intensive care unit (ICU), as well as deployment teams and rotating schedules to be used in case of a rush and planning for slowly going back to normal hospital operations once the pandemic started to slow down.(O’Donnell & Gupta, 2022)
References; –
Cascella, M., Rajnik, M., Aleem, A., Dulebohn, S. C., & Di Napoli, R. (2022). Features, Evaluation, and Treatment of Coronavirus (COVID-19). In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554776/
O’Donnell, B., & Gupta, V. (2022). Continuous Quality Improvement. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559239/
Sabetkish, N., & Rahmani, A. (2021). The overall impact of COVID-19 on healthcare during the pandemic: A multidisciplinary point of view. Health Science Reports, 4(4), e386. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.386
this is was qoustion
In this week’s discussion:
Discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the healthcare safety and quality initiatives set forth in KSA’s Vision 2030.
Describe the barriers that the COVID-19 pandemic has created.
Analyze the role of the healthcare quality improvement specialist to mitigate these barriers and drive quality in healthcare in the future.