Amplifying Local Resources to Empower the Community
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
Now on demand, I am talking to Maggie Ehrenfried, Managing Director, Development LifeNet International (@LNInternational). LifeNet International is an organization working hard across Sub Sharan and East Africa to change that. This non-profit which touts its incredible efficiency operates through an “amplification of local resource” model to build and strengthen in-country capacity in the healthcare delivery chain. They work in collaboration with other services to better equip nurses, and health workers with the right care skills to deliver safe high-quality care.
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How does an organization manage to amplify and produce such great results despite having the lowest cost per person for the services it delivers. They empower community healthcare workers and amplify and enable the existing services focusing on root cause analysis and identifying small incremental improvements that can be applied in challenging circumstances.
Listen in to find out more about their incremental approach to problem-solving, the importance of data and measurement and hear how poor quality is harming more patients than lack of access to healthcare and what they are doing about it.
About the Show
For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
