News Article
Womble Carlyle Presented a Webinar on Optimizing the Benefits of Patient Safety Organizations
May 20, 2009
On May 20th, members of Womble Carlyle's Government Affairs team, Rep. Deborah Pryce and Peggy Binzer, joined with professionals from Clarity Group, Inc. and officials from the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) to present a live seminar and webinar focused on optimizing the benefits of a Patient Safety Organization (PSO).
Attendees gained valuable insight on many of the outstanding questions surrounding PSOs and how to effectively participate in a PSO system to discern fact from fiction. The program focused on how to effectively participate in a PSO system and how the PSO system can support your culture of safety. Attention was given to the potential legal issues that providers who participate in a PSO can prepare to address. Panelists discussed myths and realities of the Patient Safety Act (PSA); misconceptions of hospitals and PSOs about the PSA; PSO Pilot - Blood Utilization; magnet status-nursing peer review to support a culture of safety; and potential challenges PSOs and health care providers face under the PSA.
Panelists included:
- Bill Monier, MD, MBA, Director AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
- Anna Marie Hajek, President & CEO, Clarity Group, Inc.
- Peggy Binzer, Womble Carlyle; Lead the crafting of the Patient Safety Act while Counsel to the Senate HELP Committee
- Ellen Flynn, RN, MBA, JD, Executive Director, Clarity PSO, Division of Clarity Group, Inc.; Clinical Expert on Peer Review and Quality Improvement
- Amy Helwig, MD MS, Medical Officer, AHRQ
- Larry Patton, AHRQ Consultant