The Key Incident Monitoring & Management Systems (KIMMS) project was initiated by the Quality Assurance Scientific and Education Committee (QASEC) of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA). QASEC approached RCPA Quality Assurance Programs to launch the pilot study in 2006 with a view to offering a KIMMS QA Program at the end of the pilot. In 2008 the pilot phase was completed and KIMMS is being offered as a full Quality Assurance Program in 2009.
The KIMMS project is designed to provide pathology practices with the tools for continuous measurement and monitoring of key incident indicators. This project aims to monitor the pre-analytical and post-analytical phase of laboratory quality systems thus extending measurement of quality to the entire quality system not just analytical measurement systems.
Acknowledgement QUPP
The RCPA Quality Assurance Programs wish to acknowledge the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing for their generous support of the Key Incident Monitoring and Management Systems (KIMMS) project.