What you should know:
1. The agency is looking for a contractor to provide “reliable, valid and accessible” quality data on ASC care to surgical specialists and Military Health Systems leadership.
2. In a request for quotation inviting suppliers to bid, the DHA said an ASC benchmarking program would help Department of Defense ASCs reduce surgical morbidity, improve clinical quality and improve safety.
3. The DHA is seeking a contractor that can provide training of clinical data abstractors, dashboards that enable quality and safety data monitoring and dashboards aggregating military treatment facilities data for comparison.
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