FOREWORD
Preparedness is a key role
In April 2012 the International Federation of Hospital Engineering held its 22nd international Congress on board a Norwegian Coastal Steamer as it sailed between Tromso and Bergen. This Congress was ably prepared, organised and run by the Norwegian Organisation of Technical Leaders in Hospitals and was a great success, bringing together representatives from 34 countries, mostly from member organisations. I would like to take this opportunity to give my heartfelt thanks to all those who helped organise the event and to those who joined us at Congress in 2012. The congress was entitled A voyage through International and Norwegian Hospitals. During the event, delegates had the opportunity to visit four hospitals along the coast – University Hospital in Tromso; The local hospital in Stokmarknes (under construction); University Hospital St. Olav in Trondheim; and University Hospital, Haukeland in Bergen. The event covered three main topics – facility management and administration; hospital design, architecture and construction; and hospital technology. It was also at Congress that I proudly
accepted the presidency of IFHE, from Yasushi Nagasawa. It is a great responsibility and a great honour to follow him in this position. He was a very clear leader and has my deepest respect. In July 2011 Norway was paralysed by the
terror inflicted by a single Norwegian man, who killed 77 people in two different attacks on the same day. He car bombed a government building in Oslo, killing eight people, and then went at to shoot 69 young people who were gathered on a summer camp. This event demonstrated that the Norwegians were not well enough prepared
Ole Rist. Ing. is president of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE). He was born in Norway in 1947 and began his working career as an assistant in an entrepreneurial company in Stokmarknes, Norway. He went on to become a grammar school teacher for a year in a local rural school between 1967 and 1968. In 1968 he joined the Royal Norwegian Air Force
and graduated as a radar specialist in 1971. He went on to join several military courses in Norway as well as in England, Germany and USA and graduated from Tinius Olsen technical college in 1975. He continued to serve in the Air Force until
1983, and during this time was stationed at several sites across Norway, including the remote Jan Mayen island which is situated in the North Atlantic. In 1983 he left the Air Force to take up the
position of technical manager at the local hospital in Stokmarknes, and moved on, for a short period, to work as technologist in an oil related company in Oslo.
Shortly after its formation Ole became a board IFHE DIGEST 2013
for such a disaster. However, the healthcare system did function as planned. The lesson learned from this event is that we can and must take action to develop plans to counter similar and other catastrophic scenarios which may occur in the future. There are a lot of valuable lessons that we
can learn from each other about preparedness. For example, how Japan tackled the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2010. As hospital personnel we have to undertake risk analyses and assessments and need to make plans and exercise these plans. Risk management is one of the main tasks of technical managers in hospitals. I hope during my term as president to see
more of a focus on preparedness and I am sure there many examples of how to create a high grade of preparedness cost-effectively. It is very important to have a common understanding of how technology development can be used for the benefit of mankind and we need to ensure that we have good communication between people, hospitals and regions. In my opinion IFHE is the perfect
organisation to exchange knowledge across the vast field of hospital technology. Education in technology is essential. However, I will also focus on developing communication, as more and more people learn a common language. We are seeing a very positive development in IFHE work in South America and I am now looking forward to the next Congress in Argentina, were I feel sure that we will welcome delegates from many Latin American countries as new IFHE- members. I hope that we can inspire more people to
learn the English language in order to continue to increase the IFHE family and
member for the Forum for Sykehusenes Tekniske Ledelse (FSTL) – acting as treasurer and secretary for many years. He was the Norwegian delegate at the IFHE Congress in London in 1990 and has been present at most of the IFHE-congresses since then. In 1998 he became technical manager in
Innherred Hospital in Levanger, Norway. Following this, for a period, he was technical manager at three North Norwegian Hospitals in 2002-2003 after a reorganisation of the hospital structure in Norway and before the next reorganisation. He was one of three group-members responsible
for organising the IFHE-Congresses in Norway 2002 in Bergen and on the coastal steamer (Hurtigruten) in 2012. In 2007 he was engaged by World Health
Organization (WHO) to work out plans for isolation rooms in four hospitals in Tadjikistan in a bid to counter the spread of avian flu. He was also engaged in 2010 by the World Bank to undertake the same procedure in four hospitals in Bhutan. Ole has also been a member of Rotary
Ole Rist.
International since 1985. Ole has been married for 45 years and has
three children and six grandchildren. He is great fan of the French carmaker Citroen, and owns and drives three different types of Citroen cars from the 1970’s.
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share knowledge, and I hope that in the future language will no longer be a barrier to sharing and exchanging information. IFHE is looking to have a closer connection to The World health Organisation (WHO). We have many people within IFHE with great experience in hospital technology and it is our goal to spread this knowledge to as many people, hospitals and organisations as possible. WHO could be a catalyst to further our goals in this direction. WHO has designated a new technical officer, Dr Adriana Velazques Berumen, who will be invited to IFHE meetings and we have asked Paul Merlevede of Belgium to represent the IFHE at important WHO meetings. The new IFHE general secretary, Gunnar Baekken, will continue to distribute IFHE newsletters, but they may take a different form in the future. I would also like to take this opportunity
to call upon all technical people to contribute to the newsletter, with information and news from the field of hospital engineering. I am also happy with the decision that the annual IFHE Digest will be continued and developed and it is my privilege to present you now with the IFHE Digest 2013. Andy Wavell will continue his work to make this magazine a useful and interesting publication. Finally, I would encourage all readers to send in their articles to be printed in future publications and I would invite you all to have an active attitude to our web-site.
www.ifhe.info Enjoy the articles in this issue of IFHE
Digest. Ole Rist President
International Federation of Hospital Engineering
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