Patient Safety, Quality Improvement & Risk Management
This session focuses on the essential frameworks, strategies, and tools that ensure safe, high-quality, and reliable healthcare delivery across all settings. As health systems grow more complex, maintaining strong patient safety practices and proactive risk management has become critical for reducing errors, improving outcomes, and enhancing patient trust.
Key topics include safety culture development, root cause analysis, clinical risk assessment, incident reporting systems, and evidence-based quality improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, and PDSA cycles. The session also explores the use of data analytics, standardized protocols, checklists, and digital technologies to monitor performance, reduce variability, and prevent adverse events.
Participants will gain insights into designing safer care environments, improving teamwork and communication, addressing human factors, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives. This session equips healthcare professionals with practical strategies to strengthen patient safety, mitigate risks, and drive sustainable quality improvements across the healthcare continuum.