Patient Safety and the Use of Technologies

 

David Morgan BSc, MB ChB, FRCS, FRCS Otol. is a Consultant Otolaryngologist and Skull Base Surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands and the Professorial Unit in Neurosurgery at University Hospital Trust. He qualified at Birmingham Medical School in 1981 and undertook surgical training in London, Boston, Sydney and Bombay. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer and is currently a Surgical Specialty Advisor to the National Patient Safety Agency, a faculty member on regional and national otology courses and a medico legal advisor to the NHS Executive. In 1999 he co-founded Medicdirect Ltd, a health information website. In 2003 he formed Intelligent Medical Microsystems Ltd following a 10 year University based research programme into the medical applications of expert computer systems. The company is embedded in Birmingham Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust R&D unit and was the first company to develop a tagging system to 'mistake proof' medical processes. He is also a main board member of Medilink - West Midlands and on the AIM health special interest group as well as NPfIT local implementation group.

Westin Copley, Boston, MA

March 28-29, 2006

 

The fifth event in this series - in previous years over 400 people and 45 exhibitors have attended.