About

The mission of APMS is to cultivate a culture of quality in the pharmacy profession. We partner with pharmacies in the ongoing analysis of systems to identify best practices aimed at reducing medication errors, improving medication use, and enhancing patient care.

APMS is a Patient Safety Organization

The Patient Safety Act, passed in 2005, gave Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) the ability to create a secure reporting environment where healthcare providers could collect information surrounding healthcare errors, proactively learn from those errors to make process adjustments, and confidentially share those learnings with other providers to improve patient safety.

PSOs are listed by the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) and must follow certain rules and regulations to remain listed. Working with a PSO allows a healthcare provider to set up legal protection of their patient safety data and all associated analysis and discussions intended for use in risk reduction and patient care improvement. Pharmacists can track and study patient safety data and learn information about trends and best practices associated with dispensing errors with absolute confidentiality.

The Alliance for Patient Medication Safety has been a federally listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO), since 2008. We provide tools and resources through our Pharmacy Quality Commitment (PQC+™) program for the improvement of workflow processes to reduce medication errors, improve medication use, and minimize patient risk.

APMS^® was created by the National Alliance for State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) in 2005 and is a 501 C 3 supporting organization of NASPA.