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Home > DARTNet Institute Component Patient Safety Organization (DI PSO)

DARTNet Institute Component Patient Safety Organization (DI PSO)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced that the DARTNet Component Patient Safety Organization (DI PSO) is now listed as a PSO by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

At the DARTNet Institute, our mission is to transform multi-sourced data into standardized, actionable health information that supports patient care, quality improvement, patient safety and health improvement, and collaborative learning and research.

Working with a certified PSO can help your organization achieve improved and safer care. PSOs like the DI PSO have experts who can collect, analyze, and aggregate clinical data at the local, regional, and national level to develop insights into the underlying causes of patient safety events that might not be obvious.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognizes several benefits to participating in a PSO:

• Protections for patient safety and quality improvement information. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) provides confidentiality protections and privilege protections (inability to introduce the protected information in a legal proceeding), when certain requirements are met.
• Aggregation and analysis of data from each provider and across providers working with that PSO. This aggregation not only enables the PSO to detect patterns and trends not visible in smaller numbers of organizations or smaller health systems, but also uncovers serious and rare events sooner.
• Feedback and expertise to help you understand and prevent the causes of adverse events and to develop successful approaches to improving quality and reducing adverse outcomes.

The DI PSO is governed by a Standing Committee of the DARTNet Institute's Board of Directors (the DARTNet Safety Committee). Under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, the DARTNet Institute is the "parent organization" and the DARTNet Component-PSO is its "component organization" per 42 C.F.R Part 3. See our PSO policy for more detail.