SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-12-10005
- Point of Contact
- Kathry W. Carr, Phone: 301-427-1151, Jessica Alderton, Phone: 301-427-1783
- E-Mail Address
-
kathryn.carr@ahrq.hhs.gov,
(kathryn.carr@ahrq.hhs.gov, ontracting)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) anticipates posting a solicitation for proposals for a five (5) year (base period with four extension options) performance based cost plus award fee contract for the maintenance and fielding of the Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center (PSO PPC) which will include collecting, processing, and analyzing patient safety data collected from Patient Safety Organizations; technical assistance with development and implementation of the AHRQ Common Formats; and coordination and conducting a PSO Annual Meeting. The solicitation and any documents relating to this requirement will only be available by downloading from the Internet through www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested Offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be available for downloading on or about 15 days after publication of this synopsis. AHRQ was designated by the Secretary to implement and administer the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act), and its regulations (the Patient Safety Rule) authorized the creation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), which collect, aggregate, and analyze confidential and privileged information regarding the quality and safety of healthcare. The goals of the Patient Safety Act are to encourage the expansion of voluntary, provider-driven initiatives to improve the quality and safety of health care; to promote rapid learning about the underlying causes of risks and harms in the delivery of health care; and, to share those findings widely, thus, speeding the pace of improvement. The Patient Safety Act also authorizes the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to facilitate the development of a Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD), to which PSOs can voluntarily contribute non-identifiable patient safety event information. The NPSD will receive and report on non-identifiable, aggregated patient safety event information which will be included in AHRQ's annual National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHQR and NHDR). AHRQ understood the complexity of ensuring that information submitted to the NPSD was non-identifiable and the costs associated with adherence to the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule. Therefore, AHRQ established the PSO Privacy Protection Center (PSOPPC) to assist PSOs and others with meeting the requirement that patient safety event information be made non-identifiable prior to sending to the NPSD. The PSOPPC will receive patient safety information in a standardized format (AHRQ Common Formats) and render it non-identifiable before transmitting it safely and efficiently to the NPSD. The Patient Safety Rule requires PSOs, to the extent practical and appropriate, to collect patient safety event data from providers in a standardized manner. AHRQ's common definitions, data elements, and reporting formats are known as Common Formats. The PSOPPC only accepts data represented as AHRQ's Common Formats. The PSO also delivers technical assistance to PSOs on the use of AHRQ's Common Formats. The Common Formats include event descriptions, specifications for patient safety aggregate reports, delineation of data elements to be collected for different types of events, and technical specifications for electronic data collection and reporting. The technical specifications promote standardization of collected patient safety event information by stipulating rules for data collection and submission. The PSOPPC maintains the Common Formats and the technical specifications. The Common Formats and the associated technical specifications are available on the PSOPPC Web Site (www.psoppc.org). The main requirement of this contract is to provide guidance to PSOs with using the Common Formats and rendering patient safety event information non-identifiable. The PSOPPC shall work with PSOs to receive patient safety and quality data and to render patient safety work product non-identifiable and compliant with requirements of the Patient Safety Rule (Section 3.212), then transferring the data securely and efficiently to the NPSD. Specific objectives of this contract are to: 1 Maintain PSOPPC operations 2 Develop and maintain PSO PPC website and databases for receipt, analysis, and development of non-identifiable data, archive, storage, and access to data by PSOs 3 Receive information on patient safety events from PSOs 4 Apply protocols for rendering patient safety events non-identifiable 5 Transfer non-identifiable information of patient safety events to the NPSD 6 Provide technical assistance to PSOs, including training 7 Coordinate and conduct the PSO Annual Meeting, AHRQ Common Formats Software Developer's Meeting and PSO Quarterly Conference Calls The PSO PPC should be comprised of core staff of seasoned professionals with education and experience in areas such as development of large scale analytic databases for patient safety and healthcare quality data; experience with development of standardized definitions, data elements and reporting formats for patient safety event reporting; and statistical analysis expertise in non-identification methods.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/AHRQ/DCM/AHRQ-12-10005/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN02684127-W 20120229/120227235251-7b5a8a5524ec36f6a848afd41f7c9c9c (fbodaily.com)
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