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Opening Plenary Session and Keynote Address
Detailed Technical Program - Sunday, July 18, 2010
Detailed Technical Program - Monday, July 19, 2010
Detailed Technical Program - Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Interactive Poster Session
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Final Program(pdf) |
| Opening Pleanary Session and Keynote Address |
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| Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 5:30-6:45 pm |
| Room: Trianon |
| Chair: K. M. Stanney, USA |
Keynote Address
Healthcare and Patient Safety:
The Failure of Traditional Approaches
– How Human Factors and Ergonomics Can And MUST Help
James Bagian,
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, USA
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Short biography:
James Bagian, a veteran NASA astronaut, is the Chief Patient Safety Officer and the Director and Founder of the National Center for Patient Safety at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Jim has been responsible for the design, development, and deployment of numerous tools and methods to improve patient safety that are routinely used on an international basis. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards and is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.
Summary:
Hazard and harm to patients as well as inefficiencies associated with healthcare have been well described as world-wide problems that result in hundreds of thousands of patient deaths and billions of dollars of waste every year. The underlying causes for these problems have not been nearly so well described; more importantly, generalizable mitigation strategies have not been effectively identified or employed. The current state of healthcare and patient safety will be discussed with particular attention to the essential role that an engineering based approach, which is heavily rooted in human factors and ergonomics, must play if real and sustainable progress in the safe and efficient delivery of healthcare is to be achieved. Specific case studies that illustrate the compelling opportunities for the application of human factors and ergonomics related knowledge will be discussed. |
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