E-dition Compliance Monitor Provides Special Resource for Hospitals

• 11/19/2009
• Author: Janet Pimentel
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Guest blog by Michelle McDonald, RN, MPH, Product Manager Healthcare Software, Joint Commission Resources

Prior to working for JCR, I was the Vice President of Clinical Affairs and was responsible for maintaining regulatory requirements for various healthcare programs within a large healthcare system. For sometime now, healthcare organizations have stated that they wish there was a tool available that would house all regulatory requirements in one central area. It is estimated that there are 128,000 pages of regulations a healthcare organization must follow. This equates to approximately 35 to 40 three-ring binders that we all know or have seen sitting on shelves and bookcases of those individuals who are responsible for maintaining compliance for an organization.

New this year for hospital programs is E-dition Compliance Monitor, also referred to as ECM. E-dition Compliance Monitor is built on the current E-dition functionality and provides links at the chapter level to additional regulatory content. When a user is looking at a Joint Commission Hospital Standards Chapter, they can click on the ECM link and gain access to a myriad of regulatory content, including information from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Federal Drug Administration (FDA), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and provides access to state regulations as well.

The benefit of ECM is that these various regulations are spread across multiple government web sites and manuals, so locating exactly what you are looking for can be very arduous and extremely time consuming. ECM provides access to up-to-date regulatory information by the click of a mouse. As changes or revisions in regulations are published, the system automatically sends e-mail messages to each licensed user notifying of the new information. Specifically, ECM allows users to:
• Eliminates time and effort spent searching manuals and internet sites
• Links to relevant regulatory content from within The Joint Commission E-dition tools with full search capabilities and filters
• See requirements by applicable federal and state oversight bodies by Joint Commission chapter
• Receive automated e-mail alerts regarding changes from the regulatory bodies selected by the user

For more information about ECM, go to http://www.jcrinc.com/monitor/.

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