Improving Patient Safety: Which ICT Contribution?
ICT in support of a holistic strategy to improve the quality of care

Education session ES 41 during the World of Health IT Conference
http://www.worldofhealthit.org

Thursday, 12 October 2006, 15:00 - 16:15
Geneva, Palexpo, Room: SALEVE, Geneva, Switzerland

This session was offered by the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME, www.cpme.be), the European Health Management Association (EHMA, www.ehma.org), and the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE, www.hope.be) with the support of the European eHealth for Safety study.

After a welcome note by Dr. Markku Äärimaa and a short introduction by Céline Van Doosselaere, Dr. Veli Stroetmann presented the state of play of ICT in support of patient safety with foci on applications like decision support systems (DSS) and computerised physician order entry (CPOE); good practice examples, success and failure factors in ICT implementation, followed by brief reflection on research needs and challenges.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Thierry took a systemic approach considering public health needs: from hospital to public health information systems. Special attention was given to the need of developing patient safety indicators and the opportunities from ICT enabled syndromic surveillance medicine.

 

Agenda

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Presentations

• ICT in support of patient safety – state of play, and research needs and opportunities
  Veli Stroetmann, MD PhD, empirica Communication & Technology Research, Germany
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• Improving Patient Safety: Which ICT Contribution?
  Jean-Pierre THIERRY, MD MPH
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Background material

• CPME: Recommendation on patient safety, adopted at CPME Board meeting, Brussels, March 29th, 2003
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