Recognition of the Health Protection Agency in the CHISI awards in Healthcare Management
The project "16 Communities of Practice of Health Protection Agency, 166 people working in the network "has received the second prize of the 2011 CHIESI Awards in Healthcare Management, a distinction which is a recognition of the work done by the professionals of this organization during recent years.
B-Salut, as a nonprofit organization, is a neutral, open and multidisciplinary platform constructed by people dedicating themselves into clinical management and stakeholders with progress and innovation in healthcare organizations. In this sense, it proposed with the annual character of CHIESI award for this year, the objective of which is to facilitate and promote the benchmark of excellent experience of innovators in healthcare management, promoting, in a visual way, the diffusion of the practice.
The knowledge management team of Health Protection Agency of the Generalitat of Catalonia began its task with the experimental creation of 6 experimental Communities of Practice in 2008. Their aim was to change the classical and compartmentalized way of work, in which collaborative work has always been in the background. The year 2009-2010 was the first year that it began to work seriously by creating 12 communities of practice, in which more than 115 people participated while 9 of them were members and 24 were collaborators. In 2011, the project was established with 15 active communities, 10 newly-joined ones this year and 5 from the previous year, involving 107 people, 83 community participants, 10 facilitators and 14 collaborators. Out of number of 800 workers in total in the Health Protection Agency, about 150 of them participate in communities of practice.
Team of Organizational Development (EDO), being interested in studying the processes of creation and management of knowledge , started the collaboration with APS in 2010 in order to analyze the function of the communities of practice. It specifically focuses on:
1. To define and to analyze the successful factors of the communities of practice, and to create a map of good practice in order to export it to other contexts of administration.
2. To concrete protocols of action to generate a model of intervention.
3. To delineate standards that guide the proposed self-evaluation processes for improvement.
The EDO appreciates this collaboration greatly, and likes to encourage the Knowledge Management Team of APS to continue its project as it wishes through these lines, while equally appreciating the achieved recognition.
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