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Symposiums                                                                   Symposiums
      HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2017


             S5.1      Improving Healthcare through Innovation                   09:00  Convention Hall A

            An Overview of the Virtual Doctors Service in Zambia
            Jones H
            The Virtual Doctors, UK
            The presentation will overview the background and concept of the Virtual Doctors in Zambia. Overviewing the need of
            support for rural health workers with supportive diagnosis and treatment advise for their patients from volunteer doctors
            based in the UK.

            The presentation will discourse the three key aims of supporting rural health workers to treat more patients within their own
            communities, to help reduce unnecessary referrals to distant and hard to reach hospitals and to improve the capacity of rural
            healthcare workers through on-going mentorship.

            We will present the challenges of providing a sophisticated service in a resource poor setting and the technology that has
            evolved over time to the contemporary application of smartphone technology utilising the expanding mobile broadband
            network in Africa for the provision of internet.























             S5.2      Improving Healthcare through Innovation                   09:00  Convention Hall A

            Application of Simulation to Improve Clinical Efficiency – Systems Integration
            Chung HS
            Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea

            Simulation-based training and assessment is playing an increasingly important role in creating competent individuals to
      Wednesday, 17 May  with systems integration demonstrate consistent, planned, collaborative, integrated, and iterative application for teaching,
            become prepared in providing safer patient care. In addition to the focus on skill acquisition, it is important to ensure that
            responders are able  to perform  a  variety  of  tasks  in unique and challenging  situations.  Simulation application  is  not  only
            limited to individual or team performance, but it can also be used in the area of systems integration. Simulation programmes
            assessment, quality, patient safety, and risk management activities to achieve excellent clinical care, enhanced patient safety,
            and improved outcome metrics across a healthcare system.

            Simulation programmes need to demonstrate activities that are clearly driven by the strategic needs of the involved clinical
            facility or healthcare system(s) to achieve enterprise level goals and improve quality of care: (1) impacting integrated system
            improvement within a complex healthcare environment; (2) enhancement of the performance of individuals, team, and
            organisations; and/or (3) creating a safer healthcare delivery system and improving outcomes.

            In this presentation, we will try to share how simulation programmes have been used as a resource by quality, patient safety,
            risk management, and/or similar organisational structure for enterprise improvement with bi-directional feedback. We will
            also try to describe examples of simulation activities used by the programme that facilitated quality, patient safety, risk
            management, enterprise improvement and/or quality outcomes projects/activities.















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