8:00
Welcome
8:10
Welcome coffee
8:30
Welcome Message
8:45
Opening speech
9:00
Digital Innovation
Enhancing Patient Safety through Digital Innovation: The Missing Links
- Outline digital innovation’s safety enhancements and potential new risks in care delivery
- Identify obstacles and enablers for integrating digital innovations in healthcare
- Discuss required policies, management approaches, and training for implementing digital innovations with a view to improving patient safety
09:30
Healthcare worker wellbeing and safety
How the fatigue and wellbeing of the healthcare professionals interact with the uptake and implementation of technologies?
- Patient safety risks associated with fatigue of the healthcare professionals
- Discussion of the impact of new technologies on workload and mental burden: risks and benefits
- Desire for technology innovation compared to healthcare professionals’ needs and expectations for their work
- Possible ways to move forward
Training and simulation
Using innovative technology to empower caregivers and patients to improve patient safety and outcomes
- Improvements, but also the additional risks that technology used for training purposes can bring in terms of patient safety and outcomes
- Barriers and enablers to the use of technology (simulation equipment and software, video platform, virtual reality) in HCP training programmes or patient preparation procedures
- Steps that need to be taken at each level (policy, hospital administration, health professional, etc.) to move forward and optimise the use of technology (incentives, precautions, conditions of implementation)
11:30
Medication safety
Reducing medication errors with digital management and support systems
- Improvements in medication safety and potential new risks introduced by digital management systems
- Barriers and facilitators for adopting digital support systems
- Policies, management strategies, and training required for effective implementation of digital medication management systems
13:30
Telemedicine
Advancing patient safety through Telemedecine
- Highlight telemedicine’s safety improvements and potential risks in patient care
- Identify adoption barriers and facilitators for telemedicine use
- Discuss policies, management strategies, and professional training needed for telemedicine
16:00
Continuity of care
Improving patient safety and outcomes in the continuity of care with the help of digital technologies based on AI-derived algorithms
- Patient Safety benefits and additional risks
- Cultural challenges to overcome
- Conditions for efficient implementation and safe use