27 August 2024 | 10:30-12:00

Format: Presentation
Stream: Change

Part 1: Digital transformation is everywhere, but are we making life safer for patients?

Anticoagulants are used extensively for thrombotic and embolic disorders. Whilst incredibly effective when used appropriately, they are deemed high risk medications. It’s these risks, such as major bleeding, that our research aims to prevent. In the current clinical environment, healthcare organisations are investing in health information technology as a quality improvement measure to enhance patient safety. This session presents the effect of electronic medical record (EMR) implementation on the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation management, highlighting strategies to harness digital technology to promote safety for hospitalised inpatients.

Jodie Austin The University of Queensland, Australia

 

Part 2:  Will the artificial intelligence take place in stroke prevention?

Recognizing stroke risk factors and creating behavioral changes will be possible with the more common use of today’s possibilities. Artificial intelligence and machine –learning have begun to attract great attention in the field of medicine, as in every field today. In the field of neurology, the contribution of artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis, creating risk algorithms and developing scales to measure risk level, and contributing to treatment decisions is being investigated by more and more studies. This new achievement can be used to decrease stroke prevalence and incidence by using big data and by distributing prevention tools through common smart devices.

Serefnur Ozturk Selcuk University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey

 

Part 3: Multidisciplinary approach to enhance control of blood pressure in essential hypertension patients

Hypertension leads multiple complications including cardiovascular pathology, stroke, and renal failure. This controllable condition is next to smoking as a cause of mortality from avoidable cardiovascular events. Despite global efforts to manage hypertension in recent years, its frequency among adults has been increasing. Hypertension is a highly prevalent disease in Saudi Arabia with poor control rates. The “Vibrant Society”, one of the main pillars of the Kingdom’s vision 2030. The program will work to achieve improved health and healthcare services and also work to complete the implementation of the strategic objectives which are: facilitating access to health services, improving the quality and efficiency of services, promoting prevention of health risks.

Sultan Alharthi Prince Mansour Military Hospital, Saudi Arabia