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New Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services Measure Set Available to Meet Joint Commission’s ORYX Requirements Effective with October 1, 2008 discharges, accredited hospitals that provide acute inpatient psychiatric services will be able to use The Joint Commission’s Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS) measure set to meet current Joint Commission ORYX performance measurement requirements. In conjunction with the HBIPS measures, The Joint Commission also will implement an important modification to existing ORYX performance measurement requirements by offering free-standing psychiatric hospitals the option of collecting and submitting data on either the seven measures included in the final HBIPS measure set or nine non-core measures, in order to meet ORYX requirements. Additionally, general medical/surgical hospitals that provide acute inpatient psychiatric services will be able to select the Hospital- Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services measure set as one of their four sets of core measures needed to meet ORYX requirements for 2008. Detailed specifications for the seven HBIPS measures are available on The Joint Commission’s website. To view the whole article visit
http://www.jointcommission.org/NewsRoom/ For questions regarding Regulatory Compliance, please email us at: information@signethealth.com
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