Critical Paths: Patient Safety 


Overview

The Critical Paths: Patient Safety project will assess the readiness of electronic data and health IT systems to support data capture, normalization and standardization to support patient safety reporting and evaluation across clinical information systems (e.g., electronic health records (EHRs) health information exchanges (HIEs), etc.). The project will specifically address medical device safety measurement concepts and then develop a critical path and action plan to address these key issues, gaps, and barriers. The scope of the project is focused on acute care infusion devices.

This project will assess the ability of existing health IT infrastructure (Quality Data Model (QDM), Healthcare Quality Measure Format (HQMF) , Measure Authoring Tool , electronic health records (EHRs) to support the use of medical device data for purposes of quality measurement and reporting. The future state is to integrate Unique Device Identification (UDI) and associated meta-data into existing quality measurement methods using point of care data capture within electronic systems. Achieving this integration will provide more accurate tracking of key performance metrics at both the individual and population levels.

 
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TECHNICAL EXPERT PANEL

 
 
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ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

 
 
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DRAFT REPORT

 
 
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FINAL REPORT

 

NQF reviewed and synthesized public comments on the draft report, and developed a final report on the critical pathways to enable electronic quality measurement for acute care infusion devices. The final report was delivered to HHS on October 31, 2012.

Critical Paths for Creating Data Platforms: Patient Safety: Intravenous Infusion Pump Devices 

 

 
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