New Joint Commission certification addresses secondary use of data
Editor's Note
The Joint Commission announced a new certification program in a December 5 Global Newswire press release. The new certification provides guidance to healthcare organizations on the safe transfer of patient data to third-party organizations.
The voluntary Responsible Use of Health Data (RUHD) Certification program aims to help hospitals best navigate secondary use of data–or data usage outside of clinical care–which may include data used in quality and operations or artificial intelligence algorithms. While the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reports that nearly 85% of US hospitals are able to export patient data for reporting and analysis purposes, there are no established standards for the handling of secondary health data.
The RUHD certification program will guide organizations through best practices around:
- patient data transparency
- limitations of data use
- de-identification
- algorithm validation
- data controls
- oversight structure.
Hospitals are invited to immediately begin working toward RUHD Certification and can apply beginning on January 1, 2024.
Free Daily News
- Report: Consistent, purposeful manager-team engagement reduces RN turnover
- Death, hospital readmission less likely for women treated by female doctors
- FDA announces class 1 recalls for infusion pumps, anesthesia workstation
- Study finds workforce readiness gap in new nurses
- Joint replacement manufacturer recalls products after FDA packaging warning
- Gene-edited pig kidney, heart pump combined in transplant surgery milestone
- Catheter sterility concerns prompt Class 1 FDA recall for surgery trays
- Large amounts of personal data possibly stolen in Change Healthcare cyberattack
- AI model helps predict patient decline, drive collaborative care
- One patient’s recovery highlights benefits of outpatient endoscopic spine surgery