17 May 2013
This conference is organised by AKTIVE, Advancing Knowledge of Telecare for Independence and Vitality in later life. They will disseminate research from AKTIVE and other Assisted Living Innovation Platform projects and obtain feedback and insights from stakeholders in the telecare and wider assisted living industry.
This conference is free to attend but registration is mandatory. See more information about the conference and a link to register.
21 May 2013 – 22 May 2013
The Congress will equip you with a practical toolkit to inspire and empower staff, and implement tangible solutions to clinical issues.
12 September 2013 – 13 September 2013
The 2nd World Congress of Clinical Safety’s main theme is Risk in Clinical Care. It aims to improve and promote the science and technology of better safety in both risk and crisis management in healthcare. The congress covers a wide range of topics such as patient safety, medication safety, medical device safety, infectious disease outbreak, and other related subjects.
Key topics include:
- Philosophy and strategy of managing risk and error
- Clinical communication for risk and safety
- International perspectives for clinical safety
- Safety culture in healthcare and group medicine
- IT and medical informatics in clinical safety
- Education and training for clinical safety
- Patient’s or career’s role in clinical safety
- Simulation and human factor for clinical safety
- Survey and report of clinical errors
- Risk and safety in medical device
- Surgical safety, preoperative risk management and Checklist
- Medication safety
- Drug safety
- Emergency healthcare system
For more details, visit the website at iarmm.org/2WCCS/.
25 November 2013
A one day symposium organised by the Healthcare Special Interest Group of the IEHF.
This event will explore the positive contribution of human factors to patient and provider safety. You will learn about the latest methods, techniques and tools and hear from leading researchers and practitioners about approaches that work. There will be the opportunity to network and make contact with researchers, practitioners and clinicians.
Call for Abstracts
The abstract should describe recent research or a practical project applying human factors and ergonomics theory, methods or tools to improve patient or provider safety.
The abstract must be a maximum of 500 words in length and should include a statement of relevance of not more than 60 words.
The presentation time is 15 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.
Abstracts will be peer reviewed. Successful authors will be notified by Monday 5 August.
Please submit your abstract by Friday 31 May to healthsig@ergonomics.org.uk.
Successful authors will be notified by Monday 5 August.
For further information email healthsig@ergonomics.org.uk.