Clinical Safety Workshop for Healthcare Application Designers
Oct 30, 2013On November 12 in Sydney, I’ll be leading a “**Clinical Safety for Healthcare Application Designers” **workshop on behalf of the Clinical Safety committee of the Australian Medical Software Association (MSIA). This is the blurb that went out to MSIA members today:
Ensuring the clinical safety of any healthcare application is vital - but it’s hard. Not only do the economics of the industry work against it, most of the information available is targeted at the clinical users, and often isn’t relevant or useful to application designers. But it’s the designers who make the important choices - often in a context where they aren’t aware of all the consequences of their actions, and where feedback, if it comes at all, is unreliable and often unusable.
Attendees at the MSIA clinical safety workshop will work through practical examples (often real) to help raise awareness of clinical safety issues in application design, and provide attendees with a set of tools and plans to mitigate the issues. Topics covered include general clinical safety thinking, and identification, classification, presentation, and data access, migration and aggregation issues.
The workshop is sponsored by the MSIA Clinical Safety Committee, and will be lead by Grahame Grieve, who has 20 years of experience in healthcare, application design, information exchange, and also served on the PCEHR clinical safety work group.
Not all MSIA members are on the distribution list, and some of the target audience track my blog, so I thought I’d announce it here. Attendence is restricted to MSIA members, and it’s free. If you’re not on the Bridget’s (MSIA CEO) email list, and you’re interested in attending, send me an email.