ORQA is pleased to announce the release of a Virtual Appliance to allow for quick and simple implementation of Active Agenda's Operational Risk Management server application with Healthcare extensions by ORQA, LLC.  Special thanks to Active Agenda, Inc, and TurnkeyLinux for making this possible.

Active Agenda is an Operational Risk Management Web 2.0 application that has over 100 modules ranging from policy management, fleet management, OSHA injury reports, risk assessments, root cause analysis, KSA's, and many, many others.  ORQA has extended Active Agenda's functionality in to healthcare to provide the first Open Source patient safety/healthcare event reporting system.  We have also included peer review and technologist feedback modules as examples to demonstrate how Active Agendas functionality can be customized for healthcare settings.

Far beyond a simple web-based event reporting solution, accessing our Web 2.0 application does not require Java, ActiveX, or other plugins and our reporting modules can be integrated with point-of-care applications for simple reporting from end users where the events occur.  Once the reporting data is collected, follow up activity including risk assessment, RCA, corrective actions, learning events, policy changes, and formal guidance can all be associated with the original reports, to establish continuity throughout the continuous improvement cycle.

This has been released under the Reciprocal Public License which is freely available and open source, but differs from the GPL in that if you modify or extend the application and use in a commercial or public setting, you must "reciprocate" and make the changes available freely to the community.

Register for a free user account here.  Once your account is activated and you're logged in, you can download the file here.

This is a fully-functional server, and we highly encourage exploring as many modules as possible.  However, to allow for "plug & play" type functionality so it immediately works as a virtual appliance, the system is not optimized for performance or security and therefore recommend significant modifications before using in a production environment.

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