The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 laid the foundation for the creation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs). PSOs can be private or public entities, listed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that are intended to foster the sharing of patient safety work product (data, reports, analyses, accompanying documents) in a protected legal environment. PSOs must be voluntary programs that collect and analyze patient safety work product, and PSOs must disseminate recommendations and best practices on how to improve patient safety and quality.

With over 50 current listed PSOs, the landscape is confusing. In this webinar, Amy Goldberg-Alberts (Program Director at ECRI Institute) will clearly define what a PSO is. She will also explain why ECRI Institute selected rL Solutions to power its PSO. You will learn why it is beneficial to join a PSO and what to look for when considering one. As well, we will discuss how you can leverage your RMPro implementation and easily send data to the ECRI PSO through the mapping that we have already done between the two systems.

Learning Objectives

• Understand what PSOs are and what benefits they can/should offer
• Understand how submitting data to a PSO is different than state-mandated reporting
• Learn how easy it is to send data from RMPro to the ECRI PSO

About Amy Goldberg-Alberts
Amy Goldberg-Alberts is Program Director at ECRI Institute. Having joined ECRI Institute in 1991, she has developed risk/quality management and patient safety guidance materials and educational programs for use in acute care and long-term care settings and provides consultation, assessment, and advisory services to these providers. Ms. Goldberg-Alberts has served as editor of ECRI Institute’s Continuing Care Risk Management System and as editor of ECRI Institute’s Healthcare Risk Control (HRC) System, its premiere program for risk and quality management in acute care hospitals and health systems.

Ms. Goldberg-Alberts has served on the board of the Philadelphia Area Society for Healthcare Risk Management and the coordinating council of the Pennsylvania Association for Health Care Risk Management. She was awarded the designation Fellow of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (FASHRM) in 2001 and is a member of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Ms. Goldberg-Alberts received her M.B.A. in Healthcare Administration from Temple University. Her B.A. is in psychology and speech pathology from Rutgers University.