“This is a common-sense law that gives legal protections to health professionals who report their practices to patient safety organizations.  By providing critical information about medical procedures, doctors and nurses can help others learn from their experiences.”

- President George W. Bush

TXPSO collects patient safety work product that is voluntarily submitted by healthcare providers for inclusion in our database.  TXPSO avails each entity to its own data and allows the entity to expand on its collected work product in a dynamic web-based computer system.  This enables the entity to analyze its own data. 

On a quarterly basis, TXPSO analyzes an aggregate of the data submitted by all entities who contract with TXPSO and disseminates the results to its client providers in a nonidentifiable way.  Additionally, according to The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (“AHRQ”), will accumulate all patient safety data and analyze it on a national level. 

The data and analysis takes into account human contributing factors of communication, training, fatigue, as well as accounting for environment, equipment, rules, policies, procedures, and barriers, among other factors.  TXPSO focuses on the processes involved, rather than people involved.  All error reports, analysis, and other information submitted and generated to TXPSO is strongly privileged with a new federal protection. 

Our goal is for every provider in Texas to join TXPSO in order to preserve the privilege of conducting self-improvement and network with other facilities to improve the quality of healthcare.

John Spalding
President