“Qualidigm, the mission-driven national healthcare consulting think tank based in Wethersfield, Conn., was recently awarded a contract by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to continue the company’s 17 year support of the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (MPSMS), which is considered the Gold Standard in hospital adverse event reporting. In this version of the contract, Qualidigm will assist AHRQ in transitioning the program from a chart-abstraction-based system to a new web-based chart-abstraction-system based on Quality and Safety Review System (QSRS) software and the AHRQ Common Formats for Surveillance. The new award supports further analysis to detect adverse events among patients from all hospitals across the United States.”
“MPSMS is the nation’s largest and most robust source of medical record abstraction-based database designed for patient safety tracking. The system focuses on patient harm rather than medical error by identifying patient exposures to specific in-hospital patient care processes and associated adverse events, along with patient characteristics, co-morbidities, antecedent conditions, and patient outcomes. MPSMS relies on manual abstraction of patient records which can be labor intensive. This award supports AHRQ’s future vision of a monitoring system that relies less on manual chart abstraction and is designed to transition to the use of structured data and other data contained in electronic medical records (EMRs). The QSRS will offer other important adverse events such as those associated with inpatient opioid administration that are not measured in MPSMS…” Read the full press release here.
Source: Qualidigm Retains National Analysis Contract to Run the Nation’s Top Hospital Adverse Event Reporting System – September 26, 2018. Virtual Strategy Magazine.
