Awareness of preventable harm to patients due to error in Medical Imaging is increasing. The Australian Patient Safety Foundation - part of a growing movement of interested groups, is excited to announce the first Australasian Conference on Error in Medical Imaging.
The Conference will tackle issues specific to Medical Imaging including:
- National and international perspectives on key safety issues
- Lessons from a medical imaging incident reporting system
- Types of errors that occur and their impact on patients
- Medico-legal implications of adverse events
- How you can make your practice safer.
The conference will be multi-disciplinary. All healthcare professionals directly or indirectly involved in medical imaging are invited to participate: radiologists, radiographers, sonographers, interventional proceduralists, nuclear medicine physicians and technologists, medical imaging nurses, emergency medicine, general practitioners, physicians and surgeons.
The conference will also be of interest to consumer groups, safety and quality practitioners, human factors specialists, administrators, funders and regulators.
We look forward to welcoming you all to Sydney in November!
About The Conference
The Australasian Conference on Error in Medical Imaging has arisen following work conducted through the Quality Use of Diagnostic Imaging, including the founding of the Radiology Events Register (RaER), an incident reporting system supported by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists and funded under the Department of Health and Ageing's diagnostic imaging quality projects program. The reporting system allows collection of adverse events and near misses to inform quality improvement, patient safety, and education and training of medical imaging healthcare professionals. The next phase of this work includes analysis of incidents, and the determination of contributing factors, appropriate corrective strategies and systems-based improvements to improve patient safety in medical imaging.
The need for a Conference to discuss the issue of error in Medical Imaging became apparent following preliminary analysis of RaER data. Given the large numbers of medical, nursing and allied health practitioners involved in, and requesting medical imaging, it was immediately apparent that the Conference would need to be multidisciplinary and include perspectives of all stakeholders.
Organising Committee
- Tim Schultz Australian Patient Safety Foundation
- Bill Runciman Australian Patient Safety Foundation
- Tatjana Zrimec Medical Imaging Informatics, Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales
- Neil Jones Diagnostic Radiology, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University; Human Factors and Safety Management Systems, University of South Australia
- Carmel Crock Emergency Department, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
- Jane Grimm Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
- Catherine Mandel University of Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- Matthew Thomas Human Factors and Safety Management Systems, University of South Australia
- Richard Clark Avant
