4/28/2024 1 Patient Safety and Health Informatics Prof. Ahmed Albarrak, PhD, MSc Professor of Medical Informatics Chairman, Research Chair for Health Informatics and Promotion Head, Medical Informatics and E-learning Board Member International Medical Informatics Academy College of Medicine, King Saud University Founding Former Dean of Health Sciences College, and Vice Rector for Planning Quality and Development, SEU
[email protected] 4/28/2024 2 Objectives 1. Introduce patient safety definitions, imperatives and current issues 2. Introduce and discuss safety • Concepts, Issues, Solutions 3. Discuss Mitigations Tools, Human factors, Systems failure 4. Explore the impact of health informatics on patient safety 5. Integrate best practices through Patient Safety activities while designing, deploying , and maintaining health informatics solutions in the Saudi hospitals 6. Understand and Optimize the usability of health informatics through sustaining patient safety measures. 4/28/2024 Professor Ahmed Al Barrak
4/28/2024 3 Medical informatics ▪ "Medical informatics is a rapidly developing scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, and optimal use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for problem solving and decision making." Blois, M.S., and E.H. Shortliffe. in Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care, 1990, p. 20. ▪"Medical informatics is the application of computers, communications and information technology and systems to all fields of medicine - medical care, medical education and medical research.“ definition by MF Collen (MEDINFO '80, Tokyo, later extended).
4/28/2024 4 Patient Safety defined as; The prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care. 4/28/2024 Professor Ahmed Al Barrak
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