The July 2024 issue of Chicago Medicine Magazine features an article about The Joint Commission’s Telehealth Accreditation program, which is effective July 1, 2024. The program is intended for hospitals, ambulatory care, and behavioral healthcare organizations that exclusively provide care, treatment and services via telehealth, or have written agreements in place to provide care, treatment and services via telehealth to another organization’s patients.
As the use of telehealth has rapidly expanded into new healthcare settings and specialties, The Joint Commission identified the need to create a new accreditation program to address the structures and processes necessary to provide safe, high-quality care, treatment, and services using a telehealth platform.
For information on obtaining Telehealth Accreditation, contact AHCQuality@jointcommission.org.
The July/August issue of Healthcare Executive Magazine features an article about telehealth by Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, president and CEO, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International. The article, “Ensuring That Telehealth Equals Quality Care,” focuses on the need for safety and quality to remain imperative as virtual care increases.
USA Today’s “Living with HIV” campaign which launched June 28 includes an online article bylined by Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, president and CEO, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International.
The article, “Advancing Science While Protecting Personal Patient Data from Inappropriate Sharing,” talks about how AI and data governance play a crucial role in revolutionizing healthcare, from HIV treatment advancements to safeguarding patient privacy.
The National Quality Forum (NQF), a Joint Commission affiliate, has extended the deadline to Sunday, July 7 at 6 p.m. ET, for submitting public comments on proposed updated inclusion criteria used to determine a Serious Reportable Event (SRE), as well as for submitting candidate SREs based on the proposed draft 2024 SRE inclusion criteria.
The updated criteria will serve as the basis for considering revisions to the SRE List, which NQF will publish later this year and is part of NQF’s Focus on HARM (Harmonizing Accountability in Reporting and Monitoring) Initiative.
The updated SRE list will reflect evolutions in healthcare delivery and foster alignment of disparate definitions and terminologies used when interpreting harm events and subsequent reporting adherence.