New ORYX measures mean more work for you.
The Joint Commission's Board of Commissioners has approved 25 new core performance measures. Some of the measures are already used by peer review organizations that contract with HCFA, so you won't have to reinvent the wheel. The bad news is that they're process-level measures, making data more difficult to collect.
D017714:Community-Acquired Infections; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009203:Myocardial Infarction; D011014:Pneumonia; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection; D014481:United States