title: Surveyors looking for well-designed processes.
abstract: The Joint Commission's performance improvement standard requires that organizations do an effective job of designing new processes. New processes may be those that have been revamped in a way that makes the process dramatically different or new services/activities that never existed before in your organization. Consulting editor Patrice Spath, RHIT, discusses how to approach systematic process development.
authors.affiliation: Brown-Spath Associates, Forest Grove, OR, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Spath
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000379:methods*; D003625:Data Collection; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D014481:United States