Why do we need the HHC model and approach?
Healthy Healthcare tackles gaps in current healthcare innovation, where many projects risk failing to reach their potential due to isolated efforts that overlook the complex interplay of factors affecting the three HHC pillars.
A major challenge in healthcare is the ability to incorporate promising findings into practice, evaluate their effect, and effectively monitor their outcomes and most importantly: Share successful developments and knowledge between healthcare organizations stakeholders of healthcare locally, nationally and internationally.
The main reasons for this is
Firstly, that projects focusing on employee wellbeing or psychosocial working conditions are often conducted in isolation and with limited stakeholder involvement where the impact on the organisation or service delivery for patients is largely unknown. They risk failing to have any long-lasting impact because the projects do not align with the needs or expectations of stakeholders, quality of care and cost-containment in healthcare.
Second, change initiatives in healthcare typically prioritise the two pillars of Organisational improvements and Quality of services for patients. Overlooking factors that affect staff well-being. New developments ranging from new treatments, access to healthcare, reforming health systems, uptake of health technology or health promotion evidently affect healthcare worker who are the main responsible for their daily administration. Though workers are the key to successful implementation of any solution to improve metrics on the human factor or reaction is often wholly missing in these projects.
Third, lack of systematic evaluation on the results of healthcare innovations are common, sharing best practices are scarce and managers have insufficient knowledge on what parameters to measure beyond productivity. This derives from the lack of active involvement of stakeholders in healthcare and using interdisciplinary expertise in research projects by academic partners on one hand. While healthcare managers and practitioners on the other must acknowledge that their action oriented approach to implement new solutions in healthcare often compromise systematic evidence based knowledge.
Fourth, developments and research in healthcare that echoes HHC projects by targeting outcomes on all three pillars simultaneously are often locally initiatives with limited capacity to be shared to a wider global community. The Healthy Healthcare network share knowledge on HHC projects and cases readily available for a broader audience to build capacity, knowledge and (transfer) sustainable solutions in healthcare.
The Healthy Healthcare model and approach ensures that change initatives in healthcare actively involve stakeholders and interdiciplinary experts. The HHC approach draw on interdisciplinary and systemic perspectives that recognizes the entire system and the mutual dependency of factors by including relevant metrics in all three pillars to evaluate the results of a proposed solution.