Patient Safety Institute

PSI Guiding Principles

PSI Foundational Principles

PSI:

PSI serves patients through its philosophy, guidance, and actions. Its foremost task is to enable and enhance community-based collaboration for improved patient health and safety.
Its governance provides equal voices for patients and those stakeholders who directly provide care to patients (physicians and hospitals).
PSI will be funded only by those means which do not compromise its principles.

Governing bodies of community, regional, and national networks that provide access to patient-centric clinical data:

Deliberations of governance bodies must be conducted, and decisions made, by bodies and methods that reasonably represent stakeholder parties, controlled or dominated by none.
Participation must be equitably open to all individuals and organizations that materially affect patient health and safety.
Governance must be controlled in nonprofit organizations that are governed by consumers and those who provide care.
Organizational by-laws must provide consumers with control and veto power in the areas that directly impact the privacy and security of data.

Patient-Centric Clinical Data:

Must remain under the control of the individual.
Not be disclosed or disseminated to others without that individual's “opt-in” consent.
Participation shall be voluntary with the right to withdraw consent at any time.
Data should remain at its source, accessed in a distributed manner and not collected in a central repository.