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Quantros Authors Patient Safety and Quality Monographs Published By Center for Healthcare Governance

Monographs Provide a Comprehensive Overview of Quality and Patient Safety in Hospitals Including Indicators and Performance Measures

The Center for Healthcare Governance has published two monographs on patient safety and quality written by senior leadership at Quantros, Inc. for its member hospital?s boards of trustees and senior leaders. The monograph titles include ?Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Monitoring: A Resource for Governing Boards and Trustees," and "Patient Safety and Quality Reporting for Governance: Data Reporting Guide for Hospital Staff."

The monographs were developed to provide board members and senior leaders with a comprehensive overview of the quality and patient safety journey in healthcare and to provide examples of quality and safety indicators, and performance measures that can be used to drive effective oversight. They provide examples on how safety and quality data can be displayed in oversight and dashboard type reporting format. Increasingly, data from quality and safety metrics are beginning to drive pay-for-performance initiatives to improve care management, decisions on interventions that require significant investments, and the need to more proactively mitigate risk and have available a knowledge base for the institutions from which to learn.

The monographs were authored by Sanjaya Kumar, MD, M.Sc, MPH, President and Chairman of the Board and Catherine Carson-Martin, RN, BSN, MPA, Director of Programs Management at Quantros, Inc. Quantros provides real-time knowledge creation and actionable information system solutions for benchmarking, patient safety work-flow and decision support, quality and performance improvement (regulatory reporting), accreditation and compliance self-monitoring, and outcomes monitoring for healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies. Quantros is pioneering the evolution of healthcare data by providing a broader set of integrated decision support solutions that span disparate data sources and provide the most comprehensive view of safety and quality data available today.

According to Dr. Kumar, ?Having effective and efficient portrayal of data in a simple easy to understand format is a central issue for governing boards and hospital leadership. We were pleased when the Center for Healthcare Governance asked for our contribution to further the knowledge base in this area. These monographs provide not only a definitive overview of the quality and patient safety landscape today, but also present the challenges that hospitals face in aggregating, collating and presenting needed data and how to effectively address those challenges with various stakeholders.?

In addition to co-authoring the monographs Dr. Kumar was a guest speaker at the Center for Healthcare Governance?s January 2006 Symposium in Naples, Florida where he presented "Driving Safety, Quality, and Performance Improvement- A Roadmap for Executives".

The monographs can be ordered by calling the Center for Healthcare Governance at 888-540-6111.

About Quantros

Founded in 1996, Quantros serves the healthcare industry with innovative, clinically-based technology solutions and services in the areas of safety and risk management, quality and performance improvement, and accreditation and compliance. Quantros solutions are completely web-based and provide real-time actionable knowledge for quality improvement, indicator monitoring, reporting, and comparative and benchmarking analysis. Quantros products and services are currently used by over 950 healthcare facilities throughout the United States. Quantros is headquartered in Silicon Valley and maintains sales and service personnel throughout the United States. For more information on Quantros, please visit the corporate Website at www.quantros.com