Short documentary premiere on 29 June, 7pm CET.

This short documentary aims to explore and create an overview of the current challenges and technical solutions related to medication safety and raise awareness about the need to further improve medication-related patient safety.

Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems across the world. Globally, the cost associated with medication errors has been estimated at $42 billion USD annually. Errors can occur at different stages of the medication use process.

More than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS upwards of £98 million and more than 1700 lives every year, indicate national estimates, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety. 

The rapid advancement in science and technology is improving approaches to treatment in medicine, enabling increasingly precise and personalized prescribing.

This is good news for patients. But what does it mean for prescribers? How is the role of clinical pharmacists changing? Is medication management getting easier with electronic prescribing and the development of decision support systems? What is the current state of decision support systems? AI development holds great promises but in order to be applicable to all, it needs to overcome various challenges such as the lack of diversity in training data sets.

Join the premiere of the documentary on 29 June at 8 pm CET/ 2 pm ET.

The movie premiere will be accompanied by an expert panel discussion with:

• Stefan Siekierski, Nurse, Electronic prescribing Project Manager, Better Delivery Manager UK & IE

• Katrina Azer, Pharmacist, Patient Advocate, Board Member of the Pharmacy Council of New Zealand

• Robert Johnstone, Board Member of the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) and International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)

• Alexander Jankuloski, CEO at Kuwait Hospital

• Hicham Naim, Global Head Integrated & Personalized Patient Care Program, Digital Advisory Board at Takeda

• Prof. Yu-Chuan Jack-Li - a researcher of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and medical informatics, and a practicing dermatologist, the Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Health & Care Informatics

Trailer 1, adapted for audio:

Speakers in the documentary:

• David W. Bates, Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Information Systems, Patient Safety Expert and Harvard MD (Clinical & Research Perspective)

• John Horn, Emeritus Research Professor of Pharmacy at University of Washington, coauthor of “The Top 100 Drug Interactions; A Guide to Patient Management”

• David Kliff, author and publisher of the Diabetic Investor eNewsletter, former investment advisor, and as a person living with diabetes (Patient Perspective)

• Roni Shiloh, CEO of Seegnal, MD degree, specialized in Psychiatry (CDS provider and doctor perspective)

• Duncan Cripps, Lead Pharmacist for Electronic Prescribing, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

• Marinka Žitnik, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (Research perspective

• Lea Dias, Clinical Pharmacist, Founder and CEO of Quaefacta

• Abdulelah Alhawsawi, Ex - founding Director-General of the Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC)

• Roi Shternin, Founder of the patient-led Israeli society for Dysautonomia (Patient perspective).

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