Healthcare Risk-Quality-Safety, Simplified

LP PSO Common Formats

Who is Clarity PSO?

Clarity PSO is a division of Clarity Group, Inc., one of the nation's leading healthcare professional liability risk management organizations, and an early pioneer of the patient safety organization (PSO) program. Clarity PSO offers healthcare providers a full range of solutions for increasing patient safety, including analytical benchmarking, risk-quality-safety resources, and systems development. Clarity's team of PSO consultants is dedicated to helping healthcare providers of all kinds mitigate risk while improving the quality of care.

Beginning in January of 2015 under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals with 50 beds or more must belong to a PSO in order to contract with insurance companies. That time is fast approaching. Start now with Clarity PSO, and gain access to our decades of experience in improving patient safety, with a package of services that includes benchmarking, event review, risk-quality-safety consulting, and resources for evidenced-based best practices. Explore our Learning Library, answer any questions you may have about the ACA or the Final Rule, and learn how PSOs function. Work to eliminate preventable harm with Clarity PSO.

Why Choose Clarity PSO?

  • Federal legal privilege and confidentiality protections afforded by the Patient Safety Act for any patient safety work reported to the PSO
  • Reporting tools such as the Healthcare SafetyZone® Portal, with AHRQ Common Format template capabilities
  • Benchmarking via data submission to a national database (Network of Patient Safety Databases)
  • In-person and online training founded on evidenced-based best practices
  • Expertise in proactive risk assessments, root cause analyses, and in-depth investigations, which also can be protected under the Patient Safety Act
  • Ongoing support to your quality and safety departments that might not otherwise be affordable
  • Access to a national Medical Advisory Council that provides evidence-based recommendations on issues that surface via data analysis

Welcome to the Clarity PSO Website

We would like to officially welcome you to the newly revamped Clarity PSO Website. Here you will find up to date national news regarding the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, AHRQ Common Formats as well as everything Clarity PSO related.

 
 

Introducing the Clarity PSO Learning Series

Clarity PSO has released the first report in our newest series of online educational tools. These reports will focus on what we have learned through our incident reporting data collection & analyses.

Topic #1: Medication Safety

 
 

Clarity's PSO client Radisphere is changing the landscape of radiology quality & safety

Clarity's White Paper highlights Radisphere's quality management program's "just peer review process" & its success in fostering a culture of safety, reducing errors & improving radiology quality

 
 
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Clarity PSO White Papers

The Patient Safety Act - Part 1: What are the benefits of working with a PSO?

The Patient Safety Act - Part 2: The Adoption of the AHRQ Common Formats to Enhance the Benefits of Working with a PSO

Patient Safety Organizations: How to Effectively Work With a PSO