HOSPEX Healthcare Expo 2023

The “First, Best, and Only Hospital Expo in Kerala” for all your Medical Equipments and Hospital needs.

2nd Edition of HOSPEX Healthcare Expo cum Conferences will be held at Kochi, Kerala from Sep 15th – 17th 2023. This is Kerala’s first B2B Medical Expo which will take place at Zamra International Convention and Exhibition Center, Kochi,  Kerala.

HOSPEX 2023 Expo is the platform to showcase Technology, Products & Innovations to the healthcare fraternity.

Expo cum Conference Theme this year is on :

Future of Healthcare – Device | Digital | Diagnostics

Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to witness the forefront of medical technology under one roof at the HOSPEX Healthcare Expo.

HOSPEX Expo has a projected walk-in of 10000+ professionals and entrepreneurs from all over South India including doctors, hospital owners, managers, supply & purchase staff, distributors that are all from the medical industry. 

HOSPEX is the Convergence platform where Makers (Medical Device Manufacturers) , Users (Healthcare Establishments) and Innovators (MedTech, HealthTech, Digital Health Innovators, FinTech, Insuretech, CyberTech etc) and Governments , Policy Makers join the connected conversations to strengthen and improve the Healthcare Ecosystem in the country.

For more information about Expo, visit – https://hospex.in/

All Conference details are available at – https://hospex.in/hospex-2023-conference/

Contact :

T S Soumya, Hospex
+91 9080078447
Email – reach@hospex.in

The core focus of HOSPEX Healthcare Expo 2023 is medical knowledge dissemination thereby hosts multitude of conferences focused on the futuristic trends in the medical industry. These conferences provide attendees with the opportunity to learn about new products and technologies, network with other professionals in the field, and stay up-to-date on the recent and futuristic developments in the industry.

SMART Hospitals Conference

Date : Sep 16, 2023

Time : 10 00 am to 6 00 pm

Fee : Rs 500 per delegate

SMART Hospitals Conference focus is to enable Micro and Small Hospitals to Go Digital, use various HealthTech and MedTech Solutions – be it for Clinical Decision Support Solutions, Tech Solutions to help Hospitals to streamline their day to day practices, Tech solutions to improve productivity of healthcare workforce, Technologies that facilitate Quality and Safe Patient Care.

Conference will connect SMART Technologies, Solutions that are needed in healthcare settings as Future of Healthcare will be driven by Practitioners , Healthcare Settings using SMART Devices, Diagnostics and Digital Solutions.

Conference Outline :

  • SMART Medical Technologies help Practitioners to improve service standards
  • SMART Medical Device for Safe Patient care in Clinical Settings , Home Healthcare Setting
  • Testing and Certification of SMART Medical Devices – Global Regulations and Certification Requirements
  • Empowering Practitioners : Virtual Cardiac Care Diagnostic Solutions
  • Telehealth and Telemedicine – NMC Regulations & Clinical Establishments
  • SMART Prescription for Prescribers – EHR Solution
  • SMART Technologies to enable Small Hospitals – Technology Session 
  • SMART HealthTech Ecosystem
  • Digital Health Apps for Enhancing Patient Satisfaction, Loyalty and Referrals
  • Digital Ecosystems: Future of Healthcare – The Value for All: Patients, Healthcare organisations and Innovators, Startups
  • Smart Healthy Aging Tech Solutions

Target Audience :

Medical Professionals, Healthcare Professionals from Hospitals and other Healthcare organisations, HealthTech, MedTech Professionals , Startups, Innovators, Incubation Hubs, Medical Device Industry Representatives, Digital Health Teams, Quality Professionals, Regulatory Affairs Professionals and other stakeholders like Insurers, Governments, Regulators, Corporate Health & Wellness Teams, Corporate Medical Centers, Home Healthcare Service Providers etc

Venue: Zamra Convention Centre, Kochi, Kerala 

Date : September 15, 2023

Time : 2 30 pm – 5 30 pm

Fee – Rs 250 + GST 

Target Audience :

Healthcare Professionals Who are incharge of Procurement Practices in Hospitals and other Healthcare Settings 

Medical Professionals, Promoters, Management Teams, Administrators, Purchase Teams, Biomedical Engineers, Finance Teams, Quality Teams , other functional heads who are interested in understanding more about Quality and Safety related Regulations of Hospital Supply Chain and Vendors .

Workshop shall cover following items that Hospitals Procure with special reference to:

– Biomedical Equipments

– Consumables and Disposables

– Standalone MedTech or Healthtech Software that is used for clinical decision support purpose

Program Objective :

Since Medical Devices, Health Technologies are part of the Value Chain of Hospital Supplies, its imperative for Procurement Teams, Purchase Managers, Finance Teams, Promoters , Quality Teams to learn more about Regulations and Compliances related to their Supply Chain , Value Chain of Hospitals (Suppliers and Vendors)

Hence HOSPEX has designed an Awareness Session covering the following topics for Hospital Teams who are incharge of Procurement :

  • Understanding Medical Device Regulations- Laws of the Land
  • Medical Device Regulations – Role of Bureau of Indian Standards
  • Foreign Regulations , Quality Specification – How its listed in other Key Global Regulations
  • Claims of Voluntary Certifications – How Authentic these claims are ?
  • Materiovigilance Program of India – Regulatory Requirement
  • Post Market Surveillance of Medical Devices
  • Biomedical Engineers Skill Certification Program, Scheme Details, Benefits 

Contact Details :

For more information about Conference, visit – https://hospex.in/hospex-2023-conference/

For more information about Expo, visit – https://hospex.in/

For support in registration, reach out to :

Ms Soumya – 9080078447 

Email – reach@hospex.in

Webinar on Electrical Safety in Hospitals

Webinar on Electrical Safety in Hospitals and Medical Locations (Part – 2)

The webinar will explain about the safety measures to be adopted in Hospitals and Medical locations to get safety of patients, doctors and nurses working in medical locations and fire due to short circuit.

The webinar is specially designed for Bio Medical Engineers and working professionals in Hospitals.

Dr. Vijay Agarwal, President CAHO will make the opening remarks followed by technical sessions by CAPE Engineers. The program is hosted by Mr. K P Dominic, B&G.

Date and Time of the program : 21 Jan 2023 11 Am onwards

Announcement – Digital Health Incentive Scheme (DHIS) by NHA

Digital Health Incentive Scheme (DHIS) by NHA

The National Health Authority (NHA) has announced a Digital Health Incentive Scheme (DHIS) for the stakeholders of the digital health ecosystem. The scheme aims to give a further boost to digital health transactions in the country under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). The incentives under this scheme would be provided to hospitals and diagnostic labs and also to the providers of digital health solutions such as Hospital/ Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Laboratory Management Information System (LMIS).

Under the DHIS, the eligible health facilities and digital solutions companies shall be able to earn financial incentives of up to Rs. 4 crores based on the number of digital health records they create and link to ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account). This incentive can be availed by the health facilities (hospitals and diagnostic labs) registered with ABDM’s Health Facility Registry (HFR) and fulfilling the eligibility criterion specified under the scheme.

Important points under ABDM’s Digital Health Incentive Scheme are:

  1. Incentives would be provided to the following entities:
    1. Health Facilities having 10 or more beds
    2. Laboratory/radiology diagnostics centres
    3. Digital Solution Companies (entities providing ABDM enabled digital solutions)
  2. The incentives shall be provided on the basis of the number of ABHA-linked transactions i.e. the digital health records created and linked to ABHA.
Healthcare FacilityBase Level Criteria   Incentives
Hospitals50 Transactions per bed per monthRs. 20 per additional transaction above the base level
Diagnostic facilities /Labs500 Transactions per monthRs. 15 per additional transaction above the base level
  1. Digital Solution Companies (DSCs) will be given an incentive of 25% of the incentive amount received by the eligible health facilities using their digital solutions.
  2. For the ABHA linked transactions done by facilities not eligible for direct incentives (Clinics/ Small Hospitals/ Health Lockers/ Teleconsultation Platforms etc.), an incentive would be provided to Digital Solution Companies.
Cost Incentives for Digital solution (HMIS and LMIS) Companies
For every Transaction by hospitals/labs using their software and receiving incentives under this policy25% of the corresponding incentive amount received by the eligible facilities
For other Transactions (including by health lockers, Teleconsultation platforms, small clinics etc.), provided the transactions are more than 200 per monthRs. 5 per Transaction

NHA is organising public webinars starting from Dec 23, 2022 to provide detailed overview of the scheme. The schedule and link for the webinars will be available on the website https://abdm.gov.in/dhis

Source: https://abdm.gov.in/DHIS

Announcement from NABH

LATEST NOTIFICATION FROM NABH ON IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF 3RD EDITION OF NABH SHCO ACCREDITATION STANDARDS

Announcement from NABH

NABH has released a notification on implementation of 3rd Edition of NABH SHCO Accreditation Standards.

Key information from the notification is shared below :

The 3rd Edition of NABH SHCO Accreditation Standards along with the Guidebook has been released on 31st August 2022.

The effective date of Implementation of the third edition standards for SHCO would be as below:

a.     All accredited SHCOs must be in full compliance with third edition by 1st March 2023 and shall submit the documentary compliance for the same by this date. The onsite compliance shall be verified during next on-site assessment (which can be either surveillance or renewal assessment).

b.     All the assessments (Pre, Final, Renewal, Surveillance) shall be based on Third Edition w. e. f. 1st March 2023.

c.      For all the assessments before 1st March, 2023, decision shall be based on Second Edition. However, such SHCOs would require to comply with the Third edition in next six months from the date of accreditation.

d.     NABH will not accept any application (New as well as Renewal) on Second Edition Standard after 31st December 2022.

The whole process of transition will be completed 1st September 2024.

Source: https://nabh.co/

Workshop on Pharmacovigilance

Workshop –Cum-Training program on Pharmacovigilance

Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission is organising a Workshop cum Training Programme on Pharmacovigilance for NABH Accredited Hospitals on Monday, July 11, 2022 between 9 am to 1 pm at Shekhar Hospital, Uttarpradesh

Total seats: 50, Registration will be accepted based on first come first serve basis.

Registration fee is Rs.1180 inclusive of GST. Last date for registration is July 6 2022.

NABH Announcements

Announcements from NABH – Fee Remittance Norms & Communication Matrix to be followed by all Applicant / Certified / Accredited Healthcare Organizations

Announcement 1 – Fee Remittance Notification

Kind Attention : All applicant / Accredited / Certified Health Care Organisations under all programs of NABH

In continuation to the previous notice of NABH related to fee payments  issued  on February 16, 2021, many Healthcare Organisations associated with NABH, are still making direct payment to Quality Council of India – NABH. NABH is facing d i f f i cu l t y in reconciling the amounts received directly as the details of payment are also not updated by the respective HCOs in their online portal.

To avoid unnecessary wastage of time  and  manpower  in  tracking  the  payments, NABH advises its stakeholders to  make payments  only through  the online portal  using the Payment Gateway  so that the payments  are appropriately  tracked  for  convenience  of all the parties.

In order to facilitate the Healthcare  Organisations  to reconcile  the fee payment  status,  NABH is requesting all the HCOs to follow the below steps with immediate effect:

  1. The HCOs a r e advised to login into their HCO account on the NABH portal for making payments through payment gateway via credit card/debit card/net banking.
  • HCOs are advised to refrain from depositing cash/cheque/DD directly into  any  account of Quality Council of India.
  • In case the HCO has no other option but Bank Transfer (NEFT/RTGS), it shall be responsibility of the HCO to update the transaction details like Unique Transaction Reference (UTR) Number, Date of Transaction, Transaction Amount, etc  on  the NABH Portal under the Make Payment category and inform NABH that the Payment was done and get the receipts generated for the payments made.
  • The HCOs are also requested to ensure that the payment details with respect to fee payments of current and previous accreditation cycles have been updated on the NABH portal account of the HCO, if not done earlier.

QCI-NABH plans to stop direct payments into its accounts done through DD/Cheque/Cash Deposit/Offline Bank Transfer (NEFT/RTGS) by March 31, 2022 and is seeking the cooperation from HCOs in this regards.

Download the notification from NABH here

Announcement 2 – Communication Matrix Released for the benefit of all Applicant / Certified / Accredited HCOs

NABH has earlier issued NABH communication matrix – NABH/Notification/Communication/2020/2049 dated 25th September 2020

All the applicant and accredited/ certified HCOs that are listed in the NABH portal have the provisions for making communications with the officials of NABH through “REMARKS COLUMN”. All HCOs are requested to utilise “REMARKS” for communicating/ raising queries regarding status of their applications for accreditation/ certification to ensure transparency as well as for records.

HCOs are also requested to refrain themselves from communicating through emails or telephonically. It is practically not possible to reply to each mail or phone call individually. Moreover, neither your communication nor reply from NABH is captured for the case record purpose.

In case, the queries of the HCOs submitted through remarks on the portal are not replied within three working days, emails to Program Heads may be sent, along with contents of email copied at on-line portal remark column. The list of all programs of NABH and the responsible Program Head with contact details are listed in the notification released by NABH.

Download the notification from NABH

Source : https://nabh.co/index.aspx

Accreditation & Certification for Medical Travel Programs

Medical Travel Programs Webinar on February 11th | 6:30 PM IST

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program and the Quality & Accreditation Institute (QAI) have launched a joint accreditation program for hospitals and clinics in India serving medical travel patients. The goal of the partnership is to leverage each organization’s strengths to better serve healthcare providers in India seeking to enhance medical traveler patient experience and business performance.

GHA and QAI are pleased to present the first joint webinar to the healthcare industry on Medical Travel Programs.

About the Program

Building Patient Trust Through Accreditation & Certification for Medical Travel Programs

Trust is going to be a major factor as hospitals and clinics around the world begin to reopen for medical travel patients or increase operations. Research suggests consumers will turn to trusted sources as safety increasingly becomes a brand differentiator. Has your organization implemented protocols to keep patients safe during travel and treatment? Are you communicating these effectively? How do you ensure a high-quality medical travel experience to patients seeking treatments in India including pre and post treatment?

Program Details :

Date & Time – February 11th from 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm IST 

Learn the answers to the following questions and many more by attending this webinar :

  • How GHA and QAI’s Collaboration will support medical travel in India
  • Key elements of a successful medical travel destination program
  • Why destination safety is the new catchword in medical travel
  • How Accreditation and Certification can help build patient trust in a COVID-19 world
  • Reviewing best practices in medical travel including protocols for COVID-19
  • How Global Healthcare Accreditation based on international standards accredited by ISQua can positively impact your medical travel program

For more information about Program outline, Speakers details, check the link below

For more details about the GHA-QAI partnership, please refer to the official press release.