Quantros Director of Patient Safety and Risk Management is Elected Co-Chair of Patient Safety Special Interest Group (PSSIG) at HL7
Posted on: Thursday, 22 January 2009, 11:47 CST
Dr. Ali Rashidee Will Serve as Co-Chair for the PSSIG for a Three-Year Term
Dr. Rashidee is currently the Director of Product Management for Safety and Risk Solutions at Quantros. He has spent a large part of his career enhancing healthcare informatics for the betterment of healthcare safety and quality. In his current role at Quantros, Dr. Rashidee is responsible for ensuring Quantros Safety and Risk Management (SRM) solutions contain an extensive taxonomy and classification schema in alignment with national and international standards. SRM applications are used by more than 900 healthcare facilities throughout
"One of the key factors to improving patient safety is the ability for healthcare leadership to have right data presented across the systems to make fiscally sound decisions about environment of care and process improvement," according to Dr. Rashidee. "The HL7 PSSIG is focused on defining a standardized, common nomenclature for patient safety that breaks down data silos, facilitates interoperability and enables systems to provide a common language across healthcare technology solutions. I am honored to have been selected as a Co-Chair to help lead this very important endeavor."
"The work of the HL7 PSSIG is a vital component for creating system interoperability in the area of patient safety," states
About Quantros
Quantros provides real-time solutions for safety and risk management, outcomes and performance monitoring, accreditation and compliance and surveillance and decision support for leading healthcare providers throughout the nation. Quantros' web-delivered applications provide a standard platform that creates actionable knowledge to help clients save lives, improve quality and conserve assets. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, more than 2,000 healthcare facilities use Quantros web-based technology solutions every day.
Quantros team members include physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals as well as an experienced team of information technology specialists.
Quantros website: www.quantros.com
About HL7
Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven, Inc. (www.HL7.org) is a not-for-profit, ANSI accredited standards development organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7's more than 2,300 members represent approximately 500 corporate members, which include more than 90 percent of the information systems vendors serving healthcare.
HL7's endeavors are sponsored, in part, by the support of its benefactors: Accenture;
Numerous HL7 Affiliates have been established around the globe including
HL7 Website: www.hl7.org
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