Economic Competitivity in Healthcare Safety Management by Biomedical Cybernetics ALS

As experiences of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s showed, unpredictable changes will determine the long-term future of an organization. Healthcare is involved with the provision of health services to individuals. There is an elevated incidence of work-related injury among healthcare workers (HCWs) than any other sector and the impacts are also on patient safety. Healthcare workers face a number of safety and health hazards. The paper offers a reflection on healthcare business current state to be ready to take maximum advantage from an imminent knowledge quantum leap from Biomedical Cybernetics. In organizational culture, the reactive behavior by individuals refers to adjusting a situation or waiting for something happen. Instead the proactive behavior refers to anticipate these situations. Unfortunately, there are real situations which traditional risk analysis techniques are unable to manage successfully. Reactivity and proactivity are seen as an asymptotic dichotomy. They can be viewed as two irreducible complementary components that can be combined to offer a reality level with superior management and learning results to mitigate adverse cases. Recent advances in Biomedical Cybernetics allowed conceiving Anticipatory Learning Systems (ALS) as a tool for successful safety management, maximizing both final desired result and minimum environmental perturbation. So human implantable medical device, ISS, can cooperate with the biological counter-part without damaging the host. ALS and ISS are two pivotal paradigms to develop safer, effective and efficient solutions for competitive healthcare safety systems and their basic operational concepts can be successfully extended to many Business and HRO application areas, with no performance or economic penalty, to develop more and more competitive application.