Disseminating health communications, technical writing, and conference logistics.
Cygnus supported the meetings of the Patient Safety Research Coordinating Center, which assisted in the management of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) patient safety portfolio.
A major task was to support an annual 2-day meeting of approximately 350 participants, primarily directors of patient safety research projects. The great majority of those research projects were funded by AHRQ with a small subset of workplace projects funded by Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA). Diverse Cygnus activities included: securing meeting space and hotel rooms; preregistration and onsite registration; attendance tracking; catering; working with presenters; developing and producing meeting materials; and supplying a technical writer for detailed minutes and evaluations.