In January 1990, the two organizations became independent of each other, but maintained collaborative relations through operating agreements. The Board of Commissioners at its May 11 meeting approved the new timeline. This timing is intended to allow hospitals and performance measurement systems sufficient time to plan and budget for activities related to the collection of core measure data. The Joint Commission's Core Measures Implementation Task Force, composed of members of state hospital associations and chaired by Gary Carter, President and CEO of the New Jersey Hospital Association, suggested the modified schedule. Commission released to participating measurement systems the preliminary technical specifications for all core measures.
Commission releases final technical specifications for initial measure sets.
The due date is four months from the end of the last month of the reporting quarter. Good Health Information Is Difficult to Find on the Web People going online to seek out answers to their health questions may not be getting all the information they need to make informed decisions, researchers reported to Reuters Health . In their study, Berland's team first assessed 14 search engines for the ability to find key sites that were relevant to a particular medical condition. Topics included breast cancer, depression, obesity and childhood asthma. The researchers also enlisted the help of 34 physicians who were asked to evaluate the quality of the health information found on 25 different Web sites.