Joint Commission announces 2017 ORYX measure reporting requirements
The Joint Commission will require acute-care hospitals to report on five chart-abstracted measures and six electronic clinical quality measures for ORYX performance measure reporting in 2017. They may choose the six eCQMs measures from 13 of the 15 eCQMs in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for 2017. For more information, including the 2017 ORYX requirements for small, critical access and free-standing psychiatric hospitals, visit www.jointcommission.org/performance_measurement.aspx.
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