THE 12-PILLAR CLINICAL GOVERNANCE PROGRAMME (12-PCGP) LECTURE SERIES 2023: 10TH EDITION held on zoom on Wednesday, 6th December 2023.

SUMMARY

We thank all colleagues and others who were able to join the meeting, the last edition for 2023.

LECTURE 1: ‘BACKGROUND TO CREATING THE PILLAR ON ‘ICT IN HEALTH PRACTICE’ - IN 2004’

Was delivered by Prof Joseph Ana, Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Patient Safety (CCGR&PS) @ HRI Global, Calabar, Nigeria.

•       He traced how as BMJ West Africa, which published the BMJ (British Medical Journal) in Lagos (there was no Abuja) and advocated the concept of Evidence Medicine /Practice to Nigeria in 1997, the HRI Global Faculty proceeded to advocate bringing paper and electronic health information into one space by establishing the first-ever Health Information Resource Centre (H.I.R.C.) in Nigeria, its office at Eta Agbor Road Calabar in 2003. That was the precursor to advising the establishing of  the Cross River State-Owned HIRC in the General Hospital, Calabar in 2004. The HIRC played a pivotal role as the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme was being pioneered, piloted and scaled..

•       He emphasized that creating the Pillar on ICT in Healthcare facilitated achieving the objectives of the 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Programme, namely:  (1) To address the multiple failings in the Whole health sector and system in Nigeria (Cross River State As Case Study including reforming archaic record and data collection, storage, use and exchange in 2004. (2) To Strengthen the Whole health sector and system, public and private, to ‘Protect Patients, Support Practitioners In Tandem’, and (3)  To make Health facilities ‘good enough for the Leaders and all other Nigerians to use confidently when they need medical care’.

LECTURE 2: ‘ICT IN  HEALTH PRACTICE- theory to practice’

Was delivered by Dr Chidi Ihemedu, Lily Hospitals (COHSASA Certified). citing examples from the COHSASA Accredited Lily Hospital, Warri, Nigeria.

He highlighted the components of ICT in Healthcare to include, ‘Internal Communication’; ‘Digital Applications’; ‘EMR System’; ‘HER System’; ‘AI & Robotics ‘. The application is myriad including, data capture in timely manner with virtually limitless capacity for storage including in the cloud; speed and precision including Alerting users to avoid medication errors’; cost control and clinical audit of practice for quality and safety; adaptation of practice including different ways of reaching patients such as telecommunication, telemedicine, m-Health and e-health. The recent COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2022 was a very good demonstration of why every health system and health practitioner must embrace, learn and use ICT. Lack of and Ignorance of ICT heralds peril for both system and practitioners, respectively.

He spoke about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robots in Healthcare. AI and Robots cannot replace Human Beings in quality care delivery but has uses but its introduction to practice of healthcare must be monitored and regulated. The uses include Clinical Decision Support; Surgical intervention; Virtual assistant; Drug manufacturing; Patient monitoring and alerts; audit and research. He highlighted dangers that must be guarded against data breaches and ransomware (scammers and viruses); patients privacy and confidentiality; cost of technology especially in a changing tech industry; cost of training and retraining, etc.

An innovation in the 10th Edition was the completion of an online survey on the 2023 series.

We offer another opportunity for you to complete the survey if you attended any of the 10 Editions of this Clinical Governance Lecture Series this year (2023);

Please complete the HRI Global Post-Webinar Survey & 12-Pillar Clinical Governance Lecture Series 2023 Survey.

Click on the link below.

https://hri-global.org/survey.html 

Thank you, Compliments of the Season, and we look forward to seeing you inn 2024!

Prof Joseph Ana

Lead Senior Fellow/ medical consultant.

Center for Clinical Governance Research &

Patient Safety (ACCGR&PS) @ HRI GLOBAL

P: +234 (0) 8063600642

E: info@hri-global.org

8 Amaku Street, State Housing, Calabar, Nigeria.

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