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| The Ottawa Section of IEEE and Biosign Technologies are pleased to announce the 2008 Workshop on Adverse Response Monitoring (WARM 2008). |
| ... patient safety begins at home |
| Theme | Patient Safety |
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| Topic | Adverse Response to Medication |
| Scope | Instrumentation & Measurement |
| Goal | Find useful solutions (Report) |
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| Date | February 21-22, 2008 |
| Place | Ben Franklin Place, Ottawa ON |
Workshop on Adverse Response Monitoring (WARM 2008) - ARCHIVE
February 21-22, 2008, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The foremost challenge in health care is to adequately monitor the response to medication. This workshop is set to address this challenge by focusing on the "hard problem" of quantifying the response to treatment, in view of the recent advances in measurement, computation, and communication at the interface between life, health, and medical sciences.
As the topic is of universal interest, the workshop will be a cross-disciplinary, open forum that allows participants with various backgrounds to explore the issues from different perspectives.
Demonstrations include a telematic health information system for monitoring hemodynamic responses to frequently prescribed drugs. The system leverages established technologies to assess a patient’s response to treatment and the need to adjust treatment.
The goal is to find ways to unify efforts aimed at meeting the demand for medication safety systems that detect and report adverse events objectively, promptly, and relevantly – case by case, regardless of location.
Support Messages
- George Smitherman, Deputy Premier, Minister, Ontario Ministry of Health (text file, 22KB, PDF)
- Adalsteinn Brown, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Health (video file, 1.0 MB, WMV)
Audience
- Researchers and developers who will benefit from exchanging views and news, and directly establish cross-field contacts
- Scientists and educators who will collaborate with others interested in reducing the quality gap in health care
- Regulators and promoters who are interested in medication safety
- Executives and managers who will find a stimulating environment for reviewing novel projects and solutions to safe and efficient disease evaluation and management in clinical practice and trials
- Students and practitioners who are interested in the state-of-the-art and transfer of experience and knowledge
Objectives
- Describe emerging concepts in patient safety science and technology
- Define areas of controversy and provide best evidence for each approach
- Describe innovative approaches to monitoring treatment responses
- Provide tools for optimizing adverse event detection and reporting
Workshop on Adverse Response Monitoring: Instrumentation and Measurement
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering)
- Wayne K. Hindmarsh (University of Toronto, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy)
- Radu Leca (Biosign Technologies)
- George Mihalas (European Federation of Medical Informatics)
- Tofy Mussivand (Ottawa Heart Institute) – Chair
- David Silver (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories)
- Sreeraman Rajan (Defence R&D Canada-Ottawa)
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STEERING COMMITTEE
- Wahab Almuhtadi (IEEE Ottawa Section Chair;
Algonquin College, Faculty of Technology and Trades)
Branislav Djokic (National Research Council of Canada, Institute for National Measurement Standards)
Rafik Goubran (Carleton University, Faculty of Engineering and Design) - Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering)
- Radu Leca (Biosign Technologies)
- George Mihalas (European Federation of Medical Informatics)
- Wahab Almuhtadi (IEEE Ottawa Section Chair;
Algonquin College, Faculty of Technology and Trades)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Raed Abdullah (Chair)
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DATE & VENUE
- February 21-22, 2008
- Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (map)
