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Theme: Specific task-sharing and task-shifting initiatives
Theme: Post-COVID hospital management considerations
Theme: Workstyle Reform Special 2 - Safety-conscious workstyle reform
| Number of issues | English Ver. | Publication | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vol.9 | - | August 2019 | Workstyle Reform Special 1 - Elimination of early arrival and overtime work |
| Vol.8 | abstract of Vol.7&8 | February 2019 | Considering patient-centered medical care |
| Vol.7 | abstract of Vol.7&8 | August 2018 | Joint research with Juntendo University, remanufactured single-use devices (R-SUD) |
| PREMIUM KIT Special Edition | ○ | June 2018 | Special feature on case studies of improvements at medical institutions that adopted Premium Surgical Kit |
| Vol.6 | ○ | March 2018 | Improvements in operating rooms, being able to open the Premium Surgical Kit immediately before surgery after the patient comes into the room, medical innovation |
| Vol.5 | ○ | October 2017 | Surgical efficiency and safe opening (opening the Premium Surgical Kit immediately before surgery) |
| Vol.4 | ○ | February 2017 | New technology development, team medicine and comprehensive community care |
| Vol.3 | ○ | October 2016 | Robot-assisted surgery and a case study of management improvement |
| Vol.2 | ○ | July 2016 | Promoting advanced medical treatment and Smart Cyber Operating Theater (SCOT) |
| Inaugural Issue | ○ | May 2016 | Future hospital management |
The OPERATimes contains pages with excerpts from "Key Points of Medical Policy" and "Healthcare-related information." Please click on the link below to view them.（in Japanese Only）
Hospital management
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.11 First half edition, published in April 2021
The national government's healthcare policy has a long-term direction that includes the regional healthcare concept and the promotion of workstyle innovation. In this context, the outbreak of COVID-19 has posted unprecedented challenges for hospital management. We will consider how hospitals should prepare now for the post-COVID era.
Medical service fee
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.10, published in February 2020
As of January 17, 2020, we are only three months away from the medical service fee revision in FY2020. What do you
think about how this medical service fee revision is positioned?
The medical service fee revision in FY2018 was a simultaneous revision of medical and long-term care service fees that
was compared to a planetary alignment and drew a great deal of attention on the reform of the medical and long-term
care system that will be in place by 2025. Those that expected a drastic change might be relieved to know that the
impact was not as big as expected. However, the reforms have just begun and will slowly start to majorly affect
hospital management.
In this issue, titled "Positioning of the medical service fee revision in FY2020 and its impact on hospital
management," we will explore the meaning of this revision and how it will affect the management of hospitals.
Medical service fee
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.8, published in February 2019
It will be soon to be one year since the FY2018 revisions. The simultaneous revisions of medical and long-term care service fees attracted a great deal of attention and was compared to a planetary alignment, in preparation for the reform of the medical and long-term care system that will be in place by 2025. After a year has passed since the revision, we examined the impact of the revision by taking a closer look at changes in patient flows regionally.
R-SUD
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.7, published in August 2018
HOGY Medical has been proposing and contributing to the improvement of efficiency in hospital management through OPERA MASTER, its system that supports operating room management. In order to further extend improvements from the operating room to hospital management as a whole, we are working on R-SUD. Here, what R-SUD is and how it can generate profits in hospital management will be explained.
Medical service fee
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.6, published in March 2018
As of the time of writing (February 5, 2018), the overall picture of the medical service fee revision in FY2018 is finally becoming clearer. By the time this manuscript is circulated, individual revision items will be issued and a report answering questions will be available. We would like to leave the details of each item to be revised to the report and would rather focus on summarizing the key points of the revision of medical service fees based on the "Summary of discussions up to now (Draft)" by the Central Social Insurance Medical Council on January 12, 2018, which can be found here.
Community health care vision
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.5, published in October 2017
It is said that the next year's simultaneous revision of medical and long-term care service fees will be one of the milestones toward the reform of the medical and long-term care system in 2025. The interim summary of the results of the study for the medical service fee revision was already presented, and the discussion will be moved into full swing toward the end of the year (as of writing). Under such circumstances, hospitals are being required to foresee the policy direction and to find out how to make their own hospitals meaningful within the community-based integrated care system. In this issue, we would like to focus on the reorganization of wards in acute care hospitals and discuss the concept and practice of such reorganization.
Community health care vision
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.4, published in February 2017
This issue highlights and summarizes the role of acute-care hospitals as regional healthcare shifts from collaboration to integration.
Medical service fee
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.3, published in October 2016
This issue focuses on the key point of the medical service fee revision as revealed through inpatient care.
Medical service fee
Excerpt from OPERATimes Vol.2, published in July 2016
This issue focuses on the ward conversion that hospitals are being forced to make as a result of the medical service fee revision.
Medical service fee
Excerpt from OPERATimes, published in May 2016
This issue focuses on acute-care hospitals and introduces the key points of the medical service fee revision in FY2016.