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Dr. Ali Rashidee will Serve a Two-Year Term as Co-Chair of the PSWG

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ --

*NOTE TO EDITORS: Please note that this release was issued previously on January 22, 2009 containing factual errors which have been corrected herein.

Dr. Ali Rashidee MD, MS, the Director for Safety and Risk Management at Quantros, has been elected Co-Chair for the HL7 Patient Safety Work Group (PSWG). This international healthcare information organization's ongoing mission is to simplify the implementation of interfaces between health care applications for the exchange of key sets of clinical data minimizing the need for custom interface programming and program maintenance. The HL7 PSWG is the body tasked with developing the data interchange standard in the patient safety arena.

Dr. Rashidee has spent a large part of his career enhancing healthcare informatics for the betterment of healthcare safety and quality including tenure as a Co-Chair the HL7 PSWG from 2003-2005. 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 along with the business requirements for managing safety in various settings. More than 900 facilities throughout the United States use the SRM application daily to help reduce preventable medical errors and provide a safer environment of care. As a Co-Chair of the HL7 PSWG, Dr. Rashidee's knowledge and experience in patient safety will help further the group's data interoperability endeavors, both nationally and internationally.

"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 clinically and fiscally sound decisions about environment of care and process improvem
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