(MENAFN- The Peninsula) DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has presented key findings from the National Reporting and Learning System (LHSN) and an overview of the ‘CareReport’ system to a group of leading health experts in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
The event, entitled ‘The First International Conference on Patient Safety’, took place from May 7 to 8 at Riphah International University.
It connected policymakers and healthcare providers from around the world with local stakeholders to improve patient safety across the country.
The research was presented by Josh Symons, who leads the Big Data and Analytical Unit as part of the Centre for Health Policy at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London.
Symons spoke about the CareReport, a new application for patient safety incident reporting and learning, which leverages latest technologies and human behavioural insights and can help reduce the incidence of preventable medical errors in Pakistan and beyond.
Symons said: “The opportunity to present CareReport as a practical output from three years of research in patient safety reporting is exciting.
“Showcasing the excellent collaboration we have with WISH and leveraging the insights of their holistic systems approach to patient safety, while sharing them with the international community in Pakistan, is going to be of benefit to patients and clinicians around the globe.”
Egbert Schillings, CEO, WISH, stated: “It is gratifying to see one of the innovations featured at WISH get such wide traction around the globe, especially since the conference in Pakistan is geared towards deployment in a live clinical setting, rather than pure research.
“We are also proud to see our WISH patient safety report reach new and wider audiences around the world.
“All of us will be patients at one time or another in life, and making that experience safer should be a core mission for all leaders in healthcare, it is for us as a programme.”
Dr Zakiuddin Ahmed, Chairman of the conference, said: “WISH is a platform where top minds from different specialties in healthcare gather from all over the world and share research and experiences, creating a pool of combined knowledge.
“The platform generates innovative ideas and creates guidelines and standards, based on evidence and research, which should be used by those who are unable to be part of this gathering.”
The Peninsula