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| L-R: Prof Cliff Hughes, President Elect ISQua Australia; Arjun Ghatani, Minister, Health and Family Welfare, Govt of Sikkim; Chandrima Bhattacharya, Minister of State Dept of Health and Family Welfare and Law, Govt. of West Bengal; Swami Suhitananda Ji Maharaj, General Secretary Ram Krishna Mission and Math; and Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group |
Apollo Hospitals, in association with ISQua, JCI, NABH and many other institutions recently hosted the 4th International Congress on Patient Safety along with the 5th edition of International Conference on Transforming Healthcare with IT 2014 in Kolkata.
International Congress on Patient Safety
It served as a platform where the global healthcare leaders shared their experiences and exchanged knowledge and expertise on patient safety which in turn could help in implementing best practices at all levels. This Congress also aimed at improving communication between caregivers and enterprise risk management and patient safety.
The topics on the first day of the conference included: Improving Communication in Patient Safety, Patient Satisfaction vs. Patient Safety, Patient Safety 2020, Technology and Patient Safety, Economics of Patient Safety, and Professional Medical Associations and Road to Patient Safety.
The speakers on the first day included: Dr Prabhu Vinayagam, Asia Pacific MD, JCI; Dr Paul Chang, VP, Accreditation, Standards and Measurement, JCI, US; Dr Sandhya Majumdar, Deputy Director and Senior Specialist, Quality and Accreditation- Medical Affairs, Department and Clinical Governance, National University Hospital, Singapore; Dr Alexander Chiu, Chief Manager, Hong Kong Hospital Authority; S Chandra, HR, Dr Reddy’s Labs; Professor Cliff Hughes, President, Elect ISQua, Australia; Egbert Schillings, CEO, World Innovation Summit for Health, Qatar; Professor Arpan Guha, Director of Education Innovation, Liverpool Health Partners; Capt. Usha Banerjee, Group Nursing Director, Apollo Hospitals; Dr Rahul Kashayp, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, US; Ven Manda, VP, Science, Technology & New Therapies, Medtronic India; Richard Guest, CEO, Siemens Technology, India; Fredrick Radencrantz, Business Development Director, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, ArjoHuntleigh Getinge Group, Germany; A Krishna Kumar, MD and CEO, Philips Electronics, India; Dr Maurice Mars, Professor of E-Health, Nelson R Mandel School of Medicine, South Africa; Deborah K Gardener, International Scientific Affairs and Educational Manager for the Infection Prevention Division, 3M, US; Dr Anita Jain, India Editor, BMJ; Dr BK Rana, Deputy Director, NABH; Dr YP Bhatia, MD, Astron Hospitals and Healthcare Consultants; Dr Jitendra B Patel, President, Indian Medial Association; Dr Jean Marty, French Society of Critical Care, France; Dr Anjan Datta, Past President, Indian Society of Anaesthesiologist; Dr Shivakumar Iyer, President, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine; Dr SS Kamath, President, Elect Indian Academy of Paediatrics; Dr KK Kalra, CEO, NABH; and Dr Alokendu Chatterjee, Past President, FOGSI, President, SAFOG.
The Asian Patients Safety Awards 2014 to recognise the best practices within Asia were also held on the first day of the conference. These awards recognised the major contribution of individuals and organisations promoting patient safety and quality healthcare by consistently upholding principles of healthy patients, safe and affordable care. Innovation in Safe Communication, Medication Safety, Anaesthesia & Surgical Safety, Infection Prevention and Practice, Innovation in Staff Education were some of the categories in which awards were presented.
The second day of the International Patient Safety Congress focussed on topics such as Enterprise Risk Management and Patient Safety, Safety Lessons from other Industries, Role of Accreditation in Patient Safety, Patient Safety- the Global Perspective, Patient Safety and Innovation, Infection Control and Medication Safety.
The speakers on the second day of the conference were: Professor Kwong Ming Fock, Chief Risk Officer, SingHealth, Singapore; Karen Timmons, Global Healthcare Business Director, DNV Healthcare, US; Paula Wilson, CEO, JCI, US; Dr Jean Marty, President, French Federation of Private Hospitals, France; David Grayson, Clinical Lead, 20,000 Days Campaign, Ko Awatea, New Zealand; Dato’ Dr Jacob Thomas, Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia; Tim Galekop, Consultant, Sterilisation and Infection Prevention, Belgium; Anjan Bose, Secretary General, NatHealth; Hans Ossebard, GetUpGetBetter, Netherlands; Dr Elly Nyiam Opat, President, Kenya Medical Association; Priyanka Aggarwal, Partner and Director, Boston Consulting Group, India; Dr Sanjiv Navangul, MD, JnJ Medical, India; Rohit Kumar, MD, South Asia, Elsiever Health Science Division; Varun Khanna, MD, BD; Dr Shubnam Singh, Dean-Education (MIHER), Max Hospitals; Dr Mahendra Bhandari, Senior Advisor, Robotic Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital; Dr TS Jain, President, Hospital Infection Society, India; and Dr Paul Van Ostenberg, JCI, US.
International Conference on Transforming Healthcare through IT
It witnessed an exciting confluence of minds from the field of healthcare and information technology (IT) who discussed and disseminated the latest happenings in the field of Healthcare IT. This edition of India’s international conference on the Impact of Information Technology in Healthcare reportedly brought together nearly 40 speakers from across the world addressing over 500 delegates about the latest happenings in the field of Healthcare IT in their respective countries.
Developments in HCIT, Deployment of HCIT in Clinical Care, eHealth Around the World were some of the topics discussed at the conference. Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, Director of National Health portal on the Indian government’s initiatives; Khsitij Marwah, Head and Curator of MIT Media Labs; Veera Ragahavan, DELL Services, Executive Director and Head-Global Healthcare Practice, Jitsuzo Katsumata, Deputy General Administration Officer, Koma Tsukai Hospital, Japan; Prof. Ronald C Merrell, Telemedicine Consultant to NASA; Maurice Mars, Pofessor of Telehealth, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine; Zakiuddin Ahmed, CEO, e-Health Services, Karachi, Pakistan; and Lt. General PP Varma, Deputy Chief Med, HQ of Integrated Ministry of Defence, India were some of the speakers at the conference.
A panel discussion on issues and potential solutions for transforming healthcare with IT. Kiran Bajwa, MD, Microsoft India, Sandeep Mathur, MD, Oracle India, and John H Daniels VP, HiMSS US, were part of the panel discussion.
