PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —
ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) today
announces an agreement to provide patient safety services to the
Tennessee Center for Patient Safety established by the Tennessee
Hospital Association. ECRI Institute PSO will support the Tennessee
Center for Patient Safety with a patient safety data collection and
reporting system and by analyzing adverse events and other
information from participating hospitals and health systems. This
pioneering initiative will improve the quality and safety of
healthcare services delivered throughout Tennessee.
“We selected ECRI Institute PSO because of its extensive
experience in analyzing patient safety data and development of
practical information to help providers improve the process of
delivering care,” Craig A. Becker, president of the Tennessee
Hospital Association.
The Tennessee Center for Patient Safety PSO will collect,
aggregate and analyze serious patient safety events within a
protected environment. Member education and training conferences
will begin this month.
“Providers will be able to voluntarily share serious adverse
event quality and patient safety information, learn from aggregate
and facility-specific root cause analyses and best practices, and
protect patients from harm through shared learning,” stated
Tennessee’s Becker.
“We’re pleased to see the strong leadership role that the
Tennessee Center for Patient Safety is taking in improving patient
safety through the sharing of data,” says Ronni Solomon, executive
vice president and general counsel, ECRI Institute. “We look
forward to providing the analyses and data to help them learn from
and reduce adverse events.”
The ECRI Institute patient safety analytics team, with
experience handling more than 1 million adverse event reports,
comprises an interdisciplinary
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