PROJECT

A multi institutional and interdisciplinary team to innovate health management

LASALUS is a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, which is aimed at developing a postgraduate degree, in a distance-learning format, in Healthcare Management. LASALUS will be implemented throughout Latin-America, with the utilization of a simulator (virtual hospital) which, apart from being one of the products of the project, is a completely innovative technological development.

Once LASALUS Project finishes, after a three-year development period (October 2015 to October 2018):

• Each Latin American University will have been able to develop and to approve, through its competent authorities, a postgraduate distance degree in Healthcare Management, which may also be granted, jointly, by a European University .


• Each University, either Latin-American or European, would be co-owner, with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and the European Commission, of the property rights over the "Healthcare Management Simulator", which will provide the international community with "hours of healthcare management simulation", in order for them to be applied in teaching and consulting tasks as well as in the creation of different scenarios and strategic management.

Once the implementation period has finished, the sustainability of LASALUS Project will be granted, since managerial simulation through information and communication technologies (ICT), as in any simulation-based learning, is the most innovative method in modern teaching. There are no simulators in the field of Healthcare Management teaching that comprise and include every single stage of said management: planning, organization, direction, evaluation, control and accountability.

Consequently, it will be both of scientific and economic interest, to all partner Universities (Latin American and European ones), to contribute to the growth and upgrade of their LASALUS simulator, which will have a great demand for "utilization hours of the healthcare management simulator" from teaching and healthcare provider organizations as well as financing and healthcare regulatory bodies.