5,884 receive medals, degrees at SRMIST special convocation

The chief guest of the event, TS Ravikumar, President, AIIMS Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh congratulated students for having crossed this milestone.  “As we are stepping into 2020, a year of vision. SRMIST has given you a chance to create a new vision, so seized the day and enjoy it.”

Ravikumar gave a presentation on ‘Quality and Patient Safety - The Universal Language for Universal Healthcare’. He said,“Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and big data are the future. Although India is gifted with many first, we will have to adapt to the transformations in these fields.”

Our aim should be to bring down the mortality rate to an acceptable minimum. Apart from prevention, you should also learn from errors andteamwork.”

“Man-to-man, machine-to-man and machine-to-machine interfaces must work for patient safety. Unsafe care can be labelled as a disease. This is one of the top 10 causes of death. More than half of these causes are preventable. Of this, one third leads to disability and even death. Diagnostic errors also add to this. So whatever profession you are taking, your aim should be to minimize errors,” said a senior healthcare professional.

Echoing on the same line, former-chairman, AICTE, New Delhi and former director IIT Kharagpur, Damodar Acharya, guest of honour said, “Technology is fast changing. There is a sea of change in it every day and it is important to be able to cope up with it.”