The Alliance for Patient Medication Safety™ (APMS™) is a federally-listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO).  The mission of APMS is to encourage a culture of safety by providing recommendations on best practices and workflow processes designed to reduce medication errors, improve medication use and minimize patient risk.

APMS™ offers healthcare providers tools and solutions to assist in maximizing medication safety and in addition provides Federal confidentiality and privilege protection for patient information that is submitted to our PSO. 

APMS™ provides a variety of products and services designed to facilitate reporting of patient safety events and increase patient safety.  Please see the services page for additional details.

APMS™ strives to foster a culture of quality within the profession of pharmacy that promotes a continuous systems analysis to develop best practices that will reduce medication errors, improve medication use and enhance patient care.  APMS™ is dedicated to encourage voluntary reporting of patient safety work product and perform analysis and aggregate information to improve quality of care provided by the pharmacy workforce.  Through analysis of collected patient safety work product data the PSO will provide recommendations for prevention of reported medication errors in order to improve patient safety and the delivery of quality health care.

APMS™ was established in August 2008 by the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) and is federally listed as a PSO under The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act).