Eliminating Preventable Harm in Health Care.

www.apsf.net.au

Established in 1989, the APSF is internationally recognised for more than 15 years of leading research in the related fields of human error, incident monitoring and patient safety. From this research came the early prototype of the current AIMS software. In May 2003 the APSF granted PSI an exclusive, worldwide licence to sell the AIMS software (APSFs core product). The APSF is the majority PSI shareholder with a group of private investors accounting for the remainder.

The APSF closes the loop in incident monitoring by aggregating, analysing and creating topical reports on national data collected by AIMS clients. Reports based on this large body of data can provide valuable information about low frequency events and problems.

APSF activities:

• Provide a secure mechanism for PSI clients to contribute de-identified data to the APSF aggregated database
• Review, cleanse and aggregate these data into a single database
• Analyse the database to provide reports and alerts for PSI clients
• Maintain a patient safety literature library for use in research activities and in reports to PSI clients
• Research and publish papers on patient safety
• Ongoing review and development of the AIMS classification schema and provision of the classification system to PSI for inclusion in the AIMS software
• Input into AIMS development from the client and APSF perspective
• Organise and host a regular, annual summit on patient safety issues
• Assist with education of undergraduate and postgraduate university students in the health sector on patient safety issues.

 

http://www.powerhealthsolutions.com

PowerHealth Solutions is a healthcare IT developer specialising in health-specific business improvement and performance management software including: hospital reporting, revenue management, patient costing, activity-based budgeting and patient billing.

PowerHealth Solutions has a strong focus on patient safety and is currently extending its software to support repeatable (as opposed to one-off) data analyses to provide factual evidence to support patient safety and other performance improvement initiatives.

PowerHealth Solutions' award-winning product, PowerPerformance Management, can be integrated with the AIMS incident management system to identify the actual cost impact of adverse events. PowerPerformance Management assists many Australian, New Zealand and US hospitals to monitor and manage their care delivery costs and associated re-imbursement.

Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA)

www.cohsasa.co.za

COHSASA is the leading provider of quality improvement services in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1995 some 470 facilities have used the COHSASA program to meet and maintain quality standards. It does so by enabling health care professionals - from hospital level management to provincial, national and head-office management - to measure themselves against these standards and monitor improvements using quality improvement methodologies, international accreditation standards and a web-based incident management system.

COHSASA distributes and supports PSIs AIMS software for incident reporting across the southern African region. According to Professor Stuart Whittaker, CEO of COHSASA, integration of AIMS into the COHSASA Facilitated Accreditation Programme (FAP) provides a powerful tool for health facilities to improve patient safety and monitor progress as they move towards compliance with internationally accredited standards.

 

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