The Joint Commission has altered the term “disruptive behavior” in the accreditor’s standards in response to feedback from the healthcare field indicating that the term is both ambiguous and in many ways inaccurate for the purposes of its use in the standards.
The Joint Commission announced this week that it will work with SGS, a leading verification, inspection, certification, and testing company, to offer a coordinated accreditation and ISO certification package.
Shortly after CMS finalized a new rule on telemedicine credentialing, allowing hospitals to rely on credentials verification information from the distant site providing the telemedicine services instead of having to go through the weariness of verifying the laundry list of...
In healthcare facilities across the United States, x-rays and CT scans are used widely and often. Because of them, patients rarely undergo risky exploratory surgery, and countless lives are undoubtedly saved because the correct diagnosis was made with the help of the picture...
