The Joint Commission has recently issued a set of FAQs regarding the use of unlicensed persons as scribes and how the organization's standards address this practice. It is worthwhile to take a look at exactly what the accrediting body has to say about this frequently misunderstood issue.
In 2008, CMS published a ruling to stop reimbursing hospitals for certain healthcare-associated infections (HAI), including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). Four years later, that decision has made...
Fill in the blank: When a hospital uses The Joint Commission for the purposes of deemed status, it must ensure that entries into patient medical records are ___________ and ___________.
Will any of you be headed to Brooklyn for Executive Briefings on September 5th? AHAP will be represented in the audience there (I’ll be in attendance to listen in on what The Joint Commission has to say about the accreditation world this year personally) and I’d love to be able to say hello...
We’re looking for AHAP members who have a success story they’d like to share, either at our next working group call or in an upcoming newsletter article? If you are interested in speaking at our next working group call, sharing your successes, or just have a topic suggestion you’d like to...
The Joint Commission has released a new FAQ this week for hospitals for requirements for laboratory reports in the medical record. The FAQ addresses the question of whether captured data in different formats (such as the physician portal, flash reports, remote web access, an others) need to...
