 Healthcare accreditation standards will be modified after COVID-19 era. More Education to provide as much flexibility as possible in accreditation related matters to infection control, PPE, screening, isolation treatment protocol, handwashing, prevention and regular trainings emphasizing about infection control protocols. E-accreditations will be taking over using artificial intelligence technology less biased human interference.  The Post Covid-19 era will emphasize more on Risk Management than before.

1. Mandates in Healthcare after COVID-19
By.Dr. Mahboob Khan
❖ Healthcare accreditation standards will be modified after COVID-19 era. More
Education to provide as much flexibility as possible in accreditation related
matters to infection control, PPE, screening, isolation treatment protocol,
handwashing, prevention and regular trainings emphasizing about infection
control protocols. E-accreditations will be taking over using artificial
intelligence technology less biased human interference.
❖ The Post Covid-19 era will emphasize more on Risk Management than
before.
❖ Technologies that were five years away from adoption have become the new
norm. Introduction of robots and thermal scanners are among the host of late
stage technologies being instantly embedded into the ecosystem.
❖ Reconfiguring hospital space, setting up triaging desks, hand-holding
hospitals that are finding it difficult to sustain, and re-engineering the
business processes are among the changes that are becoming pronounced in
healthcare.
❖ Aerosol generating procedures: nebulization, intubation to be done in full PPE
irrespective of patient’s status.
❖ Hospitals also have to grapple with issues such as infection control protocols
and bio-medical waste disposal.
❖ The disruption that the pandemic wrought has brought frugal engineering to
the fore besides accelerating adoption of technology in every workingplace.
❖ The extra precautions that the hospital has adopted, including full-suited gas
masks to PPEs for all, isolation wards its maintenance and extra staff would
mean a 15-20 per cent cost escalation.
❖ Social distancing, use of Face mask, avoidance of handshake will be new
trend.
❖ Online meetings online doctor consultations, work from home, webinars, less
travel, low congregation will be new normal. Grant of more sick leaves and
stay at home when ill will be encouraged.
❖ Cashless payments will be encouraged.
❖ Academics to focus more on research and utilizing hospital data on studying
the prevalence of the disease and educating and notifying new cases.