Archive for December, 2008
How does the Peminic-Greeley PSO Work?
From a very simple standpoint, a PSO provides two key benefits to its members. These include Aggregation of Data and Protection of Analysis. The Peminic-Greeley PSO is structured such that the members can submit data for both of these purposes.
You can submit Occurrence Report data, Cause Analysis Data and Peer Review data to the PSO where it is de-identified and aggregated with data from other members and then analyzed and key points reported back to you based on the level of your membership.
In addition if you declare that data or analysis is a Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) based on the rules in your Patient Safety Evaluation System (PSES) then it will be registered as such and be protected as such. We will talk about PSWP and PSES in other columns because there are some important details there. We work with our members to assist you in setting up an effective definition and management system for PSWP and your PSES.
The PSO Consultants constantly review the PSO data and provide feedback to the members through the PSO website, the regularly schedule member webinars and special notifications. In addition your membership provides access to the solutions library where the PSO consultants post what we consider best practice solutions and recommendations as well as feedback from the field and the members on what has worked for them.
Focusing on Solutions
Our informal motto for the Peminic-Greeley PSO is “Better solutions – not just more data.” That’s important to all of us. Having data is always good – If you are reading this blog you obviously have a strong interest in data. But we have to be careful to not get caught up in data for data’s sake. Our real goal has to be to find effective, realistic solutions for the problems at our facilities based on good data.
A solution that is not supported by some data is just another opinion and data without any action is just extra work. Our goal in the PSO will be to help you balance these two polarities.
When we were designing our PSO approach, we did not want just a ‘data stream’ – we wanted to be actively involved in translating the data stream into good solutions. That’s why we have this blog and the member webinars and audio conferences planned to assist you in getting the most from the PSO data as it starts to develop.
In a way, if we compared the PSO to our personal finances, we wanted this to be more like having an ‘investment expert’ that was assisting you in effectively managing your account rather than just getting a monthly statement.
Of course, as a member of the PSO, there will be quite a bit of data that will be available that you can analyze yourself – but you won’t have to. We will have our PSO experts monitoring the data to send you a ‘flash’ when there is something that we see that might be useful to the PSO members to assist in improving your organization.
Welcome to the Peminic – Greeley PSO Blog
Welcome to the Peminic – Greeley PSO blog. We are all excited at the opening of this new channel to communicate with our clients and assist in the ongoing improvement of our healthcare processes and systems. When Greeley and Peminic joined force to establish a PSO we wanted to bring you the best in both data collection /management and analysis to help drive solutions to improve our facilities. We look forward to sharing our thoughts and hearing your thoughts back on how we can best use this new avenue to make or facilities safer and more effective.