Healthcare Quality and Information (HQI)

USP's Department of Healthcare Quality and Information (HQI) was created to develop patient safety and drug information programs, products and services for practitioners and patients. It is HQI's mission to contribute to the safer care of patients by providing resources that help healthcare professionals safely deliver and administer medications to patients. HQI is composed of five specific areas:

  • Patient Safety Reporting: encompasses two adverse event reporting programs, MEDMARX® and the USP-ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program.
  • Healthcare Information: 16 Expert Committees provide support for the Model Guidelines Expert Committee, which produce the USP Model Guidelines for the Medicare Part D benefit through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Healthcare Information
  • Patient Safety Standards: 4 Expert Committees (Safe Medication Use, Nomenclature, Compounding Pharmacy, and Sterile Compounding), and 3 Advisory Panels. USP products include the Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia and the USP Dictionary.
  • Practitioner Programs and Services: HQI efforts are transformed into instructor-led classroom courses, web-based self study, seminars, webinars and other training activities with practitioner audiences both nationally and internationally.
  • Safe Medication Practices and Research: Research, data analysis and dissemination activities that target audiences including: the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies and conformity assessment bodies (e.g. FDA, The Joint Commission) the Council of Experts and other organizations engaged in extramural patient safety research such as the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research.