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Volume 7
Journal of Traditional Medicine & Clinical Naturopathy
Herbal Traditional 2018
December10-11, 2018
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December10-11, 2018 Dubai, UAE
International Conference on
Herbal & Traditional Medicine
Safety: A global healthcare issue
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o how does Herbal and Traditional Medicine Make Horizon for Nature Cure fit into the title “Safety – a Global Health Care
Issue”? Perhaps a better question would be where does it not fit? Safety must be everywhere – in everything we do, create,
discuss, design, manufacture, develop, and practice – everything! Why should I be talking with you about Safety? I am the only
person in the world who has the pleasure of representing three powerful, relevant organizations to our work:
• World Health Organization (WHO) – developing diagnostic codes ICD-TM11
• Quality care and patient safety (WHO) globally
• International Standards Organization (ISO) focused on safety in herbs, devices and formulas including common
vocabulary and standards for international classification and safety.
WHO Family of Classification ICD codes are used to count mortality, morbidity and co-morbidities. If the world does not
count Traditional Medicine using ICD codes, Traditional Medicine does not count. Quality of care and patient safety is a
world-wide concern in Health Care. Whether it is interventions, Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicines
or Homeopathy, each field presents elements of risk – thus the need for safe procedures, processes and protocols. Globally,
hundreds of thousands of lives are lost each year due to adverse events. Events that might have been prevented had safe
procedures, processes and protocols had been studied, implemented, and consistently reviewed.TheWorldHealthOrganization
has responded to the issue of adverse events by establishing a technical advisory group to begin addressing safety and global
health care issues by creating a new classification in ICD-11. This classification will cut across all the established classifications.
It will include Acupuncture, Herbal Medicines, vitamins and minerals, andManipulativeTherapies and includes adverse events
in Western Medicine. This is the first time adverse events have been studies globally. The International Standards Organization
has established a Technical Advisory Group (TAG-249) to create standards for the following:
• Single herbs
• Herbal formulations
• Needle manufacturing
• Other devices used in the practice of Acupuncture
• Informatics
A document has been created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the United States to establish
common formats. The common formats will assist with facilitating the collection of patient safety data globally. With common
standards clinical and patient safety systems can share integrated data interchange formats, standard formats for electronically
encoded information. Think about the impact global common language, global standards and the ability to share information
about safe practice, as well as the ability to regularly monitor those safe practices, procedures and protocols will have on
patients, practitioners, and positive world knowledge based on our work together.
Biography
Marilyn Allen did her education course in Westmont College –Santa Barbara, California China June 2015. Teacher at 17 Acupuncture Schools throughout the
US. Courses include Practice Management: management, marketing, public relations and health insurance information; and Land & Ethics. Provider of lunch to
all Acupuncture students taking the California Board Licensing Exam. 100 students are tested every year. Distribute a bag filled with information about suppliers,
samples and malpractice to each student who takes the state exam in CA. Present commencement speeches, speeches, talks at ‘brown bag lunches’at various
schools around the US. American Acupuncture Council insures the majority of the Acupuncture schools. Attend and sponsor the leaders in Acupuncture luncheon
yearly. Work with the Council of State associations. Sponsor a luncheon for the presidents of all Acupuncture Schools in the US twice a year. Consultant: Educational
Programs, Practice Management, Ethics & Jurisprudence, Marketing. Her publications include: Acupuncture Today- Editor (National monthly publication), Points
for Profit- Author (Textbook for Clinical Management classes), Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Journal, Back Talk: Monthly health publication for
patients, California Chiropractic Association Journal, California Society of Oriental Medicine Journal, Journal of Oriental Medicine.
marilynallen
@aol.comMarilyn Allen
American Acupuncture Council – Orange, USA
Marilyn Allen, J Tradit Med Clin Natur 2018, Volume 7
DOI: 10.4172/2573-4555-C4-011