Today Team DICO members organized a workshop on patient pathways. The workshop participants discussed experience and knowledge gained from a series of related projects, with focus on multi-sectorial collaboration in pathways. Team DICO facilitated a session on digital transformation competences.
Patient pathways are enablers of integrated care. At the same time, multi-sectorial patient pathways are challenging to develop and implement in organizations. Often, participants with different goals and organizational cultures need to cooperate to implement the pathway, which can be challenging.
The workshop was in particular about pathways that involve specialist doctors, general practitioners, social security, and employers. This type of pathways are common in prolonged sick leave and similar cases.
Through the day, the participants developed a set of principles and a module (a package of best practices) for a part of a pathway where various stakeholders need to meet and make decisions.
Babak Farshchian from Team DICO’s presented the team and facilitated a discussion about how the knowledge from the development phase of the pathway R&D projects can be transferred to the implementation phase, and what kind of competencies are needed to implement digitalized pathways in multiple organizations using existing digital infrastructures.
Patient pathways represent challenging scenarios, also when it comes to digital transformation competences. Multiple digital infrastructures have to meet and operate in tandem. Users need to be able to cooperate using new tools, and technical issues can be common. For DICO, digital pathways can be an extreme case for digital transformation competences.