Aston Group at the conference in Kazan "Improving the performance of healthcare institutions: theory and practice 2016"

Publication date: 29 april 2016

The conference was held in the Tatarstan capital on April 25-26.

The conference was attended by the leading healthcare administrators, representatives of the regional OMS funds, the head physicians of medical clinics, pharmacists, the medical equipment producers, providers of IT health technologies, and others.

Aston Group was represented by the following experts:

Maria Zdvizhkova, Head of Strategic Consulting who presented a report "Payment for healthcare services under the OMS system: changes in the regional provider payment rates in 2016" during the conference session titled "The new funding mechanisms for health facilities. The payment rates and the cost of medical services".

Igor Petrushin, Head of Marketing Research and Consulting was a speaker at the session "Improving the efficiency of healthcare institutions". His report was devoted to the new mechanisms utilized by the healthcare facilities in procurement of drugs and medical devices in the recent years.

The scientific program of the conference included the following topics:

Implementation of the new medical technologies
The changing models for funding of healthcare facilities
In hospital infection control
Procurement of pharmaceuticals in the inpatient setting
Transition to a single-channel funding mechanism
Use of health technology assessment at the regional level
Outsourcing in the healthcare facilities
Personnel management
Improving the quality of care provision, and other topics.

Also, a number of practical workshops were conducted for the following specialists:

Head Physicians of the Ambulance Hospitals
Head Physicians of the Republican Clinics
Head Physicians of the Children’s Clinical Hospitals