The first conference entitled “Patient Safety – Serbia 2024” was held at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade on World Patient Safety Day, which is celebrated today.
The aim of the conference is to improve the quality of healthcare, with a special emphasis on safety and improving the position of patients in the modern healthcare system. Particular attention is paid to the use of artificial intelligence in the timely and accurate diagnosis of patients’ health condition.
As a guest in the RTS1 TV channel morning show, Anđelka Zečević from the Association for Patient Safety of Serbia, as a member of the organizing team said that artificial intelligence had the capacity to influence more accurate diagnostics through algorithms that were capable of detecting various interesting laws and phenomena in the data structuring and thus support doctors in decision-making.
MD/PhD Arsen Ristić from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, added that hospital information systems supported by artificial intelligence would significantly facilitate the work of specialist doctors, by sending a signal when there was a mistake in their actions, when they should expand diagnostic procedures regarding the patient, and most importantly when they might be making mistakes in relation to the treatment of patients.
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The organization and program committee of the conference also included the head of Heliant development team, Filip Maljković.
One of the central panels of the conference entitled “Decision Support Systems for Cardiovascular and Oncological Diseases – Early Detection and Personalized Interventions”, brought together experts in the fields of medicine, informatics, mathematics and pharmacy, who discussed the possibilities of advanced technologies in early detection of diseases.
Vukašin Radulović, a representative of the company “Heliant”, which is a leader in the development of software solutions for healthcare facilities in Serbia, also spoke at this panel. PhD Nevena Veljković, CEO of Genial, was the moderator of the panel.
In addition, a panel on patient safety culture was held at the conference, the challenges and risks of modern pharmacotherapy were presented, as well as the issue of patient safety in the age of generative artificial intelligence.
Panel “Culture of patient safety”: moderator Anđelka Zečević, Aleksandra Hadži Manić, PhD Vanja Taleski, PhD Milica Ćulafić, MSc Jelena Durković, PhD Bosiljka Đikanović Tetiković
The participants of the conference, including representatives of the academic community, companies and patient associations, agreed that it was necessary to further develop mechanisms that will provide better patient protection and more efficient healthcare.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Patient Safety. This global initiative seeks to raise awareness and better understand the problems patients face in complex healthcare procedures and foster better coordination of healthcare systems around the world.