AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and we’d love to get your feedback about who you’ve enjoyed in the past, and who you’d like to see this year.
The Joint Commission has published its prepublication standards for telemedicine (LD.04.03.09 and MS.13.01.01) to their website here. If this link doesn’t work, you can also copy and paste the URL below into your web...
AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and we’d love to get your feedback about who you’ve enjoyed in the past, and who you’d like to see this year.
In a recent announcement, The Joint Commission has urged hospitals and other accredited organizations to review their sterilization and high-level disinfection (HLD) processes in detail.
The latest AHAP working group call on tracers was a great success! Thank you to all who joined in and participated on the call, and a special thank you to advisory board members Jodi Eisenberg and Missi Halvorsen for leading the discussion. The recording is now available on the website and...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 22, Issue 8
In the May issue of The Joint Commission Perspectives™, The Joint Commission lists top standard compliance issues for 2010. And just like in previous years, infection control (IC) standards can be found among the top 10 most frequently cited standards among hospitals,...
Many hospitals have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) or are currently doing so, and the federal government provides incentives for using this technology in a meaningful way. EMRs are a big step up, after all: Instead of a paper chart that needs to be tracked down,...
Many hospitals have implemented electronic medical records (EMR) or are currently doing so, and the federal government provides incentives for using this technology in a meaningful way. EMRs are a big step up, after all: Instead of a paper chart that needs to be tracked down,...