Headline Sponsors
Medtronic
Bold thinking. Bolder actions. We are Medtronic. Medtronic plc, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is the leading global healthcare technology company that boldly attacks the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people across 150 countries. Our technologies and therapies treat 70 health conditions and include cardiac devices, surgical robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. Powered by our diverse knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and desire to help all those who need it, we deliver innovative technologies that transform the lives of two people every second, every hour, every day. Expect more from us as we empower insight-driven care, experiences that put people first, and better outcomes for our world. In everything we do, we are engineering the extraordinary. For more information visit:
Medtronic Integrated Health Solutions (IHS)
Integrated Health Solutions builds on Medtronic‘s unique combination of capital resources, process optimization expertise and therapy knowledge.
In cooperation with medical institutions, IHS develops innovative services and solutions to improve efficiency, reduce costs, facilitate patients’ access to different types of treatment, and improve outcomes.
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RLDatix
Trusted by over 5,000 healthcare organisations globally, RLDatix helps to make healthcare a safer, better experience for clinicians, staff and patients alike. We offer a broad suite of solutions and services that enables you to proactively identify risk, enhance operational efficiency and compliance, and build a consistent, transparent culture of safety. We partner with health systems that strive to improve and integrate siloed governance, risk, and compliance functions to keep their organisations safer. Our vision of Applied Safety Intelligence aims to increase insights and collaboration across all healthcare operations — enabling you to save time, lower costs, and inspire trust.
Virginia Mason Institute
Virginia Mason Institute is a mission-driven not-for-profit education and training company specialising in partnerships that enable organisations worldwide to create, accelerate, and sustain their own patient-centred management system and embed a culture of continuous improvement.
Our multi-disciplinary team has extensive health care leadership experience and are experts in strategic planning, innovation, large-scale change, and process improvement.
Whether you are getting started on an improvement journey, facing a significant challenge, or looking for a comprehensive system-wide transformation, we have the experience and proven models and methods to help you dramatically elevate your patient experience, eliminate waste and sustain excellence long-term.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
Calitakropolis
With the best solutions available in the industry, CALITAKROPOLIS develops integrated management consulting and ensures sanitary management performance. After 15 years of experience, we created the MediQApp application, a national and international innovation, to digitalize quality management in hospitals. By winning the Romanian excellency award for medical innovation, it has demonstrated its value.
CALITAKROPOLIS is an ISQua Institutional Member with national and international reference participation in several fields, mainly in Healthcare Management, E-Learning and Policies on International Accreditation Standards we are helping with a smooth transition towards Green Hospital. The ability to model for every ISQua member nation is the MediQApp solution’s added value.
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Central Denmark Region
Central Denmark Region is one of five regions in Denmark. Denmark is organised at three political and administrative levels: the national (government), the regional (5 regions) and the municipal level (98 municipalities). Each region is led by a Regional Council, consisting of 41 politicians elected every four years. The regions responsibilities are within the areas of health, psychiatry, social or regional development. The region must secure the overall strategy and at the same time top quality services; be it in the personal educational contact at institutions or when a patient needs nerve fibre surgery. The primary responsibility of Central Denmark Region is healthcare. This includes being responsible for the nine somatic hospitals and eight psychiatric hospital departments, pre-hospital emergency services, general practitioners and practising specialist doctors. The region also operates a number of specialised social care institutions in agreement with local municipalities.
Codonics
Codonics Safe Label System (SLS) is a medical device that helps eliminate hospital medication errors in syringe preparation areas.
Integrating worldwide best practices and international standards, it meets the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Guidelines and uses barcode technology to improve the safety and accuracy of medication management. SLS electronically verifies medication data against the hospital’s pharmacy-approved formulary database during syringe preparation, instantly provides visual and audible safety confirmations, and then prints a human and machine-readable full-color, ready-to- apply syringe label, eliminating handwriting. The label integrates with the patient record at administration for 100% accuracy and effective closed-loop medication management.
Join the world’s leading hospitals that’ve made SLS a standard of care, helping to prevent >1.4M medication errors. Visit our website and come speak to us in Copenhagen to learn more.
Danish Society for Patient Safety
Danish Society for Patient Safety (PS!) is an independent, nonprofit organization working to improve patient safety across Danish healthcare. PS! was founded, and is supported by, all major stakeholders in Danish healthcare. PS! strives to create sustainable healthcare, undertaking small and large scale improvement projects in collaboration with our partners.
Danske Regioner
Danish Regions is the interest organization which looks after the common interests of the five regions at the national level. Danish Regions works on behalf of the regions in matters in which they have a common interest. The organization safeguards regional government interests within health care, hospitals, special education, regional development, environment and finances. Danish Regions negotiates agreements on behalf of the five regions. These are both collective bargaining agreements with employee organizations as well as agreements with the private practice sector. Danish Regions is responsible for negotiating the annual financial framework for the regions with the national government. Danish Regions is run by a board of elected regional politicians from the five regions and reflects the political affinities of the 205 members of the five regional councils.
Emento
Imagine if each patient had their own digital healthcare guide available 24 hours a day? With Emento’s digital platform it is a reality; the clinical staff is enabled to create an individualised and targeted care guide for their patients. The care guide forms the basis from going from “one-size fits all” information to making it possible and easy to provide the patients with the right knowledge at the right time during their courses of treatment. Evaluations show that the care guide creates reassurance, reduces unforeseen no-shows and increases the patient’s autonomy and self-management. For the clinical staff, the solution can streamline workflows, create better conditions for measuring impact and renew professionalism and enthusiasm for work. Emento is a reward-winning Danish company specialising in software development and patient communication for the healthcare sector. Emento has offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Düsseldorf and delivers its solution to hospitals and municipalities.
GS1
GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit, member-owned, standards development organisation. We help healthcare and other sectors to make their processes and solutions safer through the globally unique identification of every person, every product, and every place.
We are best known for providing a system of unique numbers (GS1 standards), data carriers (e.g. barcodes and radio frequency identification tags) and information sharing standards, relevant to products, relationships, assets, locations, services and processes. By barcoding and tracking products, assets, people, locations and more, information can be captured quickly at the point of care or use – and all with a simple scan. With this information, we can be sure who did what to whom, when, where, with what and why, to improve transparency throughout the supply chain and patient care pathway. This delivers enhanced patient safety, reduces clinical variation and improves operational efficiency.
GS1 is actively collaborating with authorities, hospitals, suppliers and other key stakeholders to embed the standards in their systems and processes to help drive global traceability from manufacturer to the patient bedside.
For contact options, visit: https://www.gs1.org/contact/overview
Improvement Cymru
Improvement Cymru is the improvement service for NHS Wales. Our aim is to support the creation of the best quality health and care system for Wales so that everyone has access to safe, effective and efficient care in the right place and at the right time across the whole care system.
We work alongside organisations to create the conditions, build the capability and make the connections for improvement to flourish.
You can keep up-to-date with our work by visiting our website and signing up to our e-newsletter. You can also listen and subscribe to our podcast, Talking Improvement.
ImproveWell
ImproveWell is an award-winning real-time feedback solution for continuous improvement and everyday innovation in health and care, helping organisations to improve staff experience and the quality of patient care. Boosting morale and empowering the frontline to drive change, 24/7 everyone can: suggest ideas for improvement; share how their workday is going; and complete pulse surveys. Insights from wider stakeholder groups can also be captured. An intelligent data dashboard enables leads to gather real-time feedback, track sentiment, prioritise improvements, measure change and publish reports. From the ward to the board, everyone has a voice in improving health and care.
To learn more, please visit:
KL
KL – Local Government Denmark (KL) is the association and interest organisation of the 98 Danish municipalities. The mission of KL is to safeguard common interests of the municipalities, assist individual municipalities with consultancy services, and ensure that the local authorities are provided with up-to-date and relevant information. The municipalities is in charge of a wide range of welfare tasks such as children’s day care, schools, care of the elderly, services to the unemployed, social services to the physical and mentally disabled, families and local health services. In relation to health care the municipalities is in charge of health promotion and disease prevention, rehabilitation and physio-therapy outside hospital, home nursing and home health care, treatment of alcohol and drug abuse, child nursing and dental services and school health care.
Medicin.dk
Medicin.dk provides independent, full scale and updated pharmaceutical information to the Danish society.
Our content is based on data from authorities, clinical guidelines and scientific sources and published after a peer reviewed editorial process involving more than 250 Medical Doctors appointed by the scientific societies. The value-added information is presented in user-friendly formats on public websites and apps customized to healthcare professionals and citizens. Updated patient leaflets is also available in electronic format together with visual instruction material.
Information from Medicin.dk is fully integrated in all healthcare systems; in hospitals, municipalities, pharmacies, and healthcare-websites. As a new feature the information is also integrated in the national decision support system and linked directly with specific patient data in the electronic medical record to improve quality and patient safety.
We believe knowledge saves lives and are eager to share what we know, and curious to get inspired by our innovative international colleagues.
MEG
MEG is a cloud-based, all-in-one quality management system for healthcare delivered through configurable mobile and web app tools.
MEG enables healthcare providers to make 10x gains in staff productivity and engagement across quality improvement, compliance with accreditation/regulatory standards, and patient safety.
Thanks to seamless integration into existing workflows for audit, incident reporting, risk management, patient experience, complaints management, document management and training processes, frontline workers are empowered to capture related data or access live information from anywhere on any device.
Management can collate, analyse and act upon real-time information and metrics across multiple sites, consolidating data into a centralised platform.
MEG is in operation in hospitals across 16+ countries, including Ireland, UK, UAE, Australasia and South America, with multilingual support.
Mölnlycke
We are Mölnlycke®
A world-leading medical products and solutions company
Our purpose is to advance performance in healthcare and we aspire to equip everyone in healthcare, from clinicians to procurement managers, to perform at their best.
We constantly innovate to offer our customers the most sustainable solutions while not compromising on safety and quality of our products. And we’re committed to do more with fewer resources.
Region Zealand
Region Zealand is one of the five administrative regions in Denmark. It covers a geography of 7.226 square kilometres. Region Zealand safeguards tasks, services and interests for 837.359 citizens. The wide range of services is spread out across 22 cities in the Region. Region Zealand is the region’s largest workplace with more than 20.000 employees and a total budget of appox. 21 billion DKK.
The main tasks of the Region are:
The running and development of the Region’s hospitals
The running and development of mental health services and social institutions
Regional transport planning
Soil and water conservation
Our aim is to build bridges between other regions and countries as well as between different stakeholders. The Region’s ambition is to create the best possible framework for sustainable growth and for our citizens’ quality of life – through our location and through dialogue and knowledge sharing.
RKKP
The Danish Clinical Quality Program – National Clinical Registries (RKKP) constitutes the infrastructure of the Danish clinical quality registries and the Danish Multidisciplinary Cancer Groups (DMCG). RKKP manages 85 clinical registries, containing information about individual patients, used for improvement of quality, research and surveillance. Through development and reporting of quality-indicators and -standards for good clinical practice the
quality of care is improved. The clinical registries are founded on a national initiative, mandated by law and regulated by national government, but financed and owned by regional governments. RKKP consists of:
- a center responsible for analytical methods including defining relevant register population, indicator algorithms, risk adjustment, relevant interpretation of results in the yearly reports, online feedback and communication with the regions and clinical departments with regard to use of data for quality improvement.
- professional boards appointed by professional medical and nursing societies for each clinical registry, representing the main clinical stakeholders and patients.
The Capital Region of Denmark
The Capital Region of Denmark covers the Copenhagen area, North Zealand and the island Bornholm. Our 44.000 employees serve 1,9 mil. citizens with the best possible care. At our eight hospitals, we work with both physical and mental health. We also work with the future of healthcare by building new hospital facilities where we have made individual patient needs an integral part of the design. The Capital Region of Denmark is also responsible for regional development including youth education and public transport in our area. In addition, the Capital Region of Denmark provide services for children and adults with physical or mental disabilities and for people in social crises. We have five focus areas which are our benchmark for how we strive to measure up to the expectations of our patients. They are:
Integrated primary health service
Patient rights
Patient satisfaction
Equality in health care
The children’s region
The North Denmark Region
The North Denmark Region is one of five regions in Denmark. With its 578,839 citizens, the region is the smallest as regards population. The North Denmark Region is responsible for these main tasks:
• Health Care and Psychiatry
Running and developing the region’s hospitals and the practice sector
• Regional Development
Create a framework for optimal development
• The Special Needs Sector
Running and developing highly specialised institutions for, among others, disabled children and adults
The University of Edinburgh
MSc Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors – Edinburgh Surgery Online
In a fast-paced healthcare environment, ensuring patient safety is of utmost importance. With this Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) accredited degree, you’ll become an expert in human factors, patient safety culture, and the latest technologies and techniques used to improve healthcare delivery.
The programme provides you with the tools to make a real difference and advance your career. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with international experts from a range of specialties and apply your learning to real-world scenarios.
With flexible online learning options, you can study at your own pace and on your own schedule.
Enrol now for September 2023
Contact Professor Steven Yule for more information: patient.safety@ed.ac.uk
Vingmed
The Vingmed Group consists of 4 direct sales organizations: Vingmed AS (Norway) – Vingmed AB (Sweden) – Vingmed A/S (Denmark) – Vingmed Oy (Finland).
The group is one of the largest companies in the Nordic for distribution and services of high-quality medical products.
Over the past few years, the company has established a Pharmacy portfolio of different solutions that have in common that they support Closed Loop Medication. We represent leading manufacturers within Pharmacy solutions like unitdose, multidose and package dispensing as well as automatic dispensing cabinets to support the clinical side.
Our portfolio is constantly developing, and new products and solutions are added where we believe it can provide added value for our customers.
The product range is evaluated with respect to high quality and competitiveness. When choosing suppliers, we prioritize high level of innovation and continuity are factors of great importance.
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that engage clinicians, patients, researchers, students, and the next generation of healthcare providers. With a focus on clinical effectiveness, research, and learning, our proven solutions drive quality improvement and patient safety across the continuum of care.
Organisers
BMJ
BMJ is a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world. The company supports health providers globally, from individual clinicians to major institutions, with evidence-based tools and resources:
The BMJ: One of the world’s top five most cited general medical journals, The BMJ has built a reputation for challenging inadequate, unethical or outdated practice.
Latest clinical knowledge and opinion: BMJ publishes 70 journals, some of which are the most cited and influential titles in their specialty.
Clinical decision support: BMJ Best Practice is a multi-award winning app and website providing evidence-based answers to clinical questions, the latest research, and guidelines.
Learning and training: Accredited continuing medical education and continuing medical professional online courses for self-assessment and exam preparation.
Medical events and career services: Help for clinicians to improve practice in their current roles whilst also seeking new opportunities.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
For 30 years, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has used improvement science to sustain better outcomes in health and health systems across the world. IHI brings awareness of safety and quality to millions, catalyzes learning and the systematic improvement of care, develops solutions to previously intractable challenges, and mobilizes health systems, communities, regions, and nations to reduce harm and deaths. IHI works in collaboration with the growing IHI community to spark bold, inventive ways to improve the health of individuals and populations. IHI generates optimism, harvests fresh ideas, and supports anyone, anywhere who wants to profoundly change health and health care for the better.