Identifying Innovations in Human Resources

HR is evolving into a more technology-based profession because organizations needs to streamline HR processes and reduce administrative burden, reducing administrative cost; compete more effectively with global talent; improve services and access data to the employees and managers; provide real-time metrics in order tom on spot decisions for the decision makers; and manage the workforce more effectively and enable the HR to transform so it can play more strategic role in the business and operations. The purpose of this chapter is to develop a meaningful debate on the innovations in human resource in terms of new ideas, methods, and technology to better meet the evolving requirement of the organization and workforce. Anticipating and exploring the future needs and circumstances rather than simply finding some responses to the situation, this chapter highlights challenges and prospects related to innovations in HR.

Upgrading the Chemotherapy Consent: Trading in Paper for Tablet

PURPOSE: Our institution participated in the Oncology Care Model, which required us to include many of the 13 elements of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) care plan into care pathways for our patients. We optimized our existing chemotherapy consent process to meet this need and maximized completion. METHODS: Our multidisciplinary committee developed a three-phase Plan-Do-Study-Act process in our breast cancer clinic: (1) update and educate providers on our paper chemotherapy form with multiple components of the NAM care plan including prognosis and treatment effects on quality of life; (2) piloted an electronic chemotherapy consent form to decrease the administrative burden; and (3) autopopulated fields within the electronic consent. We assessed feedback after cycle 1 and created a Pareto chart. The outcome measure was percent completion of chemotherapy consent documents. RESULTS: Baseline monthly random chart audit of 40 patients revealed 20% of paper chemotherapy consent forms were completed in their entirety among patients. When we re-educated clinicians about the new paper consent containing the NAM elements, compliance rose to nearly 30%. A Pareto chart confirmed that content redundancy and wordiness were leading to under-completion. After creating and piloting the electronic consent, compliance increased to 90%. Finally, autopopulation with drop-down selections increased and sustained completion to 100%. CONCLUSION: Incorporating regulatory requirements into an existing workflow using Plan-Do-Study-Act methodology can reduce administrative burden on clinicians. Additional use of innovative technology can further increase clinician compliance with regulatory requirements while delivering high-value quality care to patients with cancer.

Reform of control and supervisory activities. Changes in the regulatory framework for disinfection activities

The reform of control and supervisory activities intended to exclude old and irrelevant acts and outdated norms, fix accurate and understandable rules, as well as exclude unreasonable and redundant norms in various areas. It was called the “regulatory guillotine" and involves a complete revision of the mandatory requirements for business. Comparison the SanPiN 3.3686-21 “Sanitary and epidemiologic requirements for prevention of infectious diseases" with earlier existing health regulations in the field of disinfection, disinsection, deratization was made. Changes in the regulatory framework in the field of disinfection activities are a necessity and a fait accompli. SanPiNs contain requirements, and their compliance can be verified by the relevant supervisory authorities. Reducing the number of requirements corresponds to the goals set by the reform - this will reduce the administrative burden on business and supervisory authorities. Keywords: reform of control and supervision activities, regulatory guillotine, changes in legislation, disinfection activities, legal acts in the field of disinfectology.

The Costs and Benefits of Choice: Family Managers in Directly Funded Home Care

Directly funded (DF) home care, or consumer directed home care, gives program users a budget to choose their own services. Set in the Canadian province of Manitoba, our study examines the local DF program “Self and Family Managed Care”, which does not allow program users to hire and pay a family member. Incorporating a disability lens into care and aging studies, we share findings from a qualitative study based on 24 semi-structured interviews with DF users. We focus on the experiences of family managers, that is, representatives acting as a decision maker for an older adult. About half of the family managers in this study care for people living with dementia or cognitive decline. We identify two main themes: 1) service flexibility in DF reduces caregiver strain, 2) family managers tend to hire agencies rather than individuals to avoid administrative burden. Our discussion highlights the costs of DF from the perspective of caregivers as administrative burden (financial paperwork, finding workers, choosing a ‘good’ agency), and the benefits as flexibility (choosing workers, trusting workers, setting schedules, assigning work). We also consider the goals of family managers to enhance quality of life and avoid long-term residential care, in contrast to younger self-managers who desire control and autonomy. We recommend that DF programs need to reduce administrative work for users, support users in making informed choices, and find better ways to support, acknowledge and value the work of family managers and substitute decision makers.

Persistent Identifiers as Open Research Infrastructure to Reduce Administrative Burden

Persistent Identifiers, or PIDs, are emerging as a key aspect of research infrastructure. They act as connective tissue, exposing the relationships between different entities that make up the research ecosystem. One of the major promises of PIDs is that they can help to reduce researcher administrative burden by automating the exchange of information that currently relies on manual entry. This benefit is not well understood by researchers, in part because it can only be realized when PIDs are adopted by a critical mass of researchers, funders, and research administrators. This article will outline the defining characteristics of identifiers, articulate the major benefits of research identifiers, discuss some of the main implementation challenges, provide an overview of existing and emerging identifiers, and summarize some key recommendations for expediting the adoption of PIDs around the globe.