This months Medical Dealer Magazinehas a great analysis of the Joint Commission’s MRI Sentinel Event Alerts by Robert Junk and Tobias Gilk.
Mr. Junk and  Mr. Gilk analyze all ten points of of the sentinel alert and give their recommendations and critiques of each one.
Here’s a couple of excerpts from the article:
“The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert [...]

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AAMI announced today the launching of a new Joint Commision Discussion Group.
The discussion group -  a members only feature - is an online community where AAMI members can discuss Joint Commission issues, ask questions, and retrieve information about JCAHO topics.
According to AAMI, the Joint Commission Discussion Group is the first of several e-forums planned [...]

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M.E.T.A. (Medical Equipment & Technology Association) is surveying Biomeds to collect information about the problems healthcare organizations have experienced in regards to the differences between JCAHO and CMS, and the way inspectors apply the rules.
Survey via M.E.T.A.

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As of January 14, 2008 all physician office based surgical centers located in New York State now required to be JCAHO accredited on or before July 14, 2009. This law is due to the increasingly complex surgical procedures that are now taking place in physician offices that had previously taken place in hospitals.
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