September 3, 2015
Joint Commission announces 2016 ORYX performance measure changes
Editor's Note
The Joint Commission announced September 2 that it has made changes to its CY 2016 ORYX performance measure reporting requirements to align with changes made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Inpatient quality Reporting Program.
The changes include retirement of seven chart-abstracted measures, addition of two electronic clinical quality measures, and a chart-abstracted measure collected for CMS only.
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