Phillipines hosts Asia’s largest conference

EHM News Bureau, Mumbai

Hospital management Asia (HMA)is Asia’s largest learning conference and EXPO for hospital managers, was recently held at Philippines. Over 300 delegates from 110 hospitals in 22 countries came together for it. It is an annual convention that directs itself to the continuing professional development of the hospital manager in an environment of quality learning.

HMA is organised by the Options Info company in co-operation with The International Hospital Federation, Johns Hopkins International, The Private hospital Association of Thailand, Hospital Directore club of Vietnam and Philippine Hospital Association. The HMA programmes includes a combination of plenary sessions featuring widely recognised business and hospital management leaders from around the world;workshops and demonstrations on topic-specific innovations and up to date best management practices in hospitals and facilitated sessions to match participants with shared interests.

UK-based clinical auditor Sheenu Jhawar spoke on “Modern tools for quality assessment-clinical audit and care pathways.”- This session looked at the practical approach to clinical audit-the gold standard for clinical assessment by managers, and the session also briefly examined the latest quality assessment tool-integrated care pathways and linked it in with clinical audit.