FOREWORD
Global communication for members a priority
My first year as president of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE) has been a hectic one. There have been visits to many countries as well as regular (video) conversations with my colleagues on the executive committee. This year culminated with a lively council meeting in Brazil, which was followed by an excellent conference hosted by our Brazilian organisation, ABDEH.
I had hoped that the working groups set up in 2015 would have achieved more. Worldwide communication for group members is proving difficult and is one of the areas I intend to address over the coming year. It is important for the organisation that our working groups fulfil the initial intentions and provide much needed information to the organisation as a whole. Over the year, there have been
regular meetings with the World Health Organization (WHO) during which we have tried to engage in activities related to our sector. For many reasons this has not achieved what we expected. During the coming year, I hope that, along with other IFHE members, I will meet WHO officials with the aim of understanding what they want from us and to stress to them the need to involve us much earlier in the planning process. After all, we have a lot to offer with our collective worldwide experience in healthcare. We are pleased to have seen more
healthcare related education programmes all over the world, improving collaboration
The IFHE Digest continues to provide a much needed resource for our members and it is one that I hope can be made available to a far wider audience. As the articles come from international members, it is a platform for sharing knowledge and a way for us all to understand what is going on in the world of healthcare. I’m very happy to announce that, again, new contributing countries have submitted articles on some very interesting subjects. This shows not only the interest of our members worldwide, but also that we have readers from outside the healthcare field. For the past couple of years, a digital
version of the IFHE Digest has been available alongside the printed one. This is necessary because the world is changing. It makes it possible to connect with more people worldwide and for more IFHE members to share knowledge not only in relation to hospitals but also ‘cure and care’.
Sharing healthcare knowledge requires
with universities and students from different countries who have had an active role in congresses. The IFHE hopes to expand these activities, but currently does not have the budget to do so. Therefore, we would like to invite companies to become partners and/or sponsors to help make these programmes and developments a reality.
Douwe Kiestra
Douwe Kiestra is president of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE), vice president of the Dutch Association for Technology in Healthcare (NVTG) – after being president for more than six years, a member of the IFHE Digest advisory panel and board member of the Ronald McDonald children’s foundation Friesland and several other branch committees. Douwe has a background in building engineering, studied economics and has more than 25 years’ experience working for both public and private healthcare organisations in the Netherlands. He is responsible for real estate, estate management, building, renovation and maintenance of hospitals, nursing homes and elderly housing. He is currently operational and commercial director of the building and installation multinational Strukton Worksphere in the north east of the Netherlands and a specialist in the realisation of healthcare projects.˚
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communication and I’m looking forward to discovering new ways of communicating. I invite readers to let us know what they are missing, wishing for and expecting to read in the IFHE Digest next year and in the future. For now, enjoy the 2018 issue. Douwe Kiestra
President – International Federation of Hospital Engineering
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