NewsLetters

July/August 2008

Dear Healthcare Professional,

Welcome to the July/August issue of the Indidge Advantage newsletter. The Indidge Advantage newsletter is distributed 6 times a year. The Indidge Advantage is produced by Indidge Systems a healthcare software development company specializing in Compliance and Risk Management solutions.

Joint Commission Announces 2009 Revised Standards

What it means to you?

The Joint Commission has made some changes for 2009, including revised standards, rationales and performance requirements. The new standards, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2009, are now online and available for review. The standards overhaul is primarily administrative, as no new requirements have been added. Instead, key elements like chapter previews, introductions, standards and performance elements have been redesigned. Meanwhile, the standards have been renumbered and reordered to allow electronic sorting--as well as to make it simpler to to add new requirements in the future.This first group of revisions focuses on hospitals, critical access hospitals, ambulatory care, office-based surgery and home care. The next will look at behavioral health care, laboratory and long-term care accreditation programs. The second phase will take effect in January 2010.

-by Anne Zieger in www.fiercehealthcare.com on July 7, 2008

Joint Commission Revised Standards