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August 01, 2022 - Guidance
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005—HHS Guidance Regarding Patient Safety Work … recurring questions about what information that a provider creates or assembles can become patient safety work … Administration (FDA) and to provide FDA with access to its records, which may contain patient safety work
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January 04, 2025 - Part 3
Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Act of 2005—HHS
Guidance Regarding Patient Safety
Work … product, and, in accordance with
the confidentiality provisions, patient
safety work product cannot … It
provides some flexibility for providers
as they work through their various
external obligations … Particularly where laws or
regulations may be vague, it is
imperative that the regulators work with … Later Developing Requirements
As discussed above, providers should
work with regulatory bodies and
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February 01, 2025 - Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for information about the confidentiality protections for patient safety work … For information about confidentiality protections for patient safety work product or to file a patient
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January 01, 2010 - Organizations” (PSOs)
• Provides privilege & confidentiality protections for
information when providers work … PSOs serve as independent, external experts who can collect, analyze, and
aggregate Patient Safety Work … analysis locally, regionally, &
nationally.
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Benefits of Working With A PSO
• A provider can work … receive assistance in developing our
PSO processes and policies.
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Actual Experience
• Our work … PSO Fulfillment of Facility’s Needs
• The CPS PSO provided much needed assistance in
creating our work
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Resources About the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
Patient Safety Act
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HHS Guidance
Guides
Other Educational Materials
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August 01, 2021 - Anonymized Patient Safety Work Product – The term anonymized PSWP describes identifiable PSWP for which … Disclosure of Patient Safety Work Product – The Patient Safety Rule governs disclosure of PSWP from … Identifiable Patient Safety Work Product – Identifiable PSWP is PSWP that: (1) is presented in a form … and manner that: allows the identification of any provider that is a subject of the work product, or … any providers that participate in, or are responsible for, activities that are a subject of the work
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October 01, 2022 - Anonymized Patient Safety Work Product – The term, anonymized PSWP, describes identifiable PSWP for which … Disclosure of Patient Safety Work Product – The Patient Safety Rule governs disclosure of PSWP from an … Identifiable Patient Safety Work Product ‐ Identifiable PSWP is PSWP that: (1) is presented in a form … and manner that:
allows the identification of any provider that is a subject of the work product, or … any providers that participate in, or
are responsible for, activities that are a subject of the work
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December 21, 2021 - Among the most
important reasons why hospitals choose to work with a federally listed PSO, according … PSOs are making valuable contributions to the providers they work with,
the safety of their patients … Implementation of the Patient Safety Act: 2005 to Present
HHS was able to begin work on implementing … Improvement Final Rule
42 CFR PART 3—PATIENT SAFETY
ORGANIZATIONS AND PATIENT SAFETY
WORK PRODUCT … As the IOM Report
noted, “Human beings, in all lines of work, make errors.
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September 30, 2024 - )(ii) of the Patient Safety Rule concerning the
requirements for the disposition of patient safety work … of the source from
which it was received, to a PSO that has agreed to receive such patient
safety work … product or data;
(ii) Return such work product or data to the source from which it was
submitted;
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42 CFR Part 3
Subpart A defines essential terms, such as patient safety work … Subpart C describes the privilege and confidentiality protections that attach to patient safety work
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April 23, 2019 - patient safety and the quality of healthcare delivery
The collection and analysis of patient safety work
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Work … which the PSO, its workforce members, or its contractors receive, access, or handle patient safety work … the requirement to physically separate PSWP from non-PSWP or, if co-located with non-patient safety work
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December 01, 2010 - statute attaches privilege and confidentiality
protections to this information, termed “patient safety work … to
paragraph (b)(7)(i) of this section may only further disclose such patient safety work
product … not modify the provision as there is no statutory authority to
allow PSOs to report patient safety work … However, the statute does permit providers to report patient safety
work product to the FDA or to an … Such PSO records may include
patient safety work product in accordance with § 3.206(d) of this part.
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A Patient Safety Organization (PSO) works with healthcare providers to help them improve patient safety and healthcare quality and encourage a culture of safety. PSOs analyze data voluntarily reported by providers and provide feedback aimed…
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Work … must be a firewall between the component PSO and the parent organization so that:
Patient safety work
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November 01, 2024 - Information known as Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) is developed by providers and AHRQ-listed Patient