The Joint Commission has set accreditation standards in such places as General Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Behavioral Hospitals, and Labs that evaluate the safety and care provided by these institutions. The Joint Commission will come to a facility unannounced, this will help the and do a comprehensive onsite evaluation where they look at the patients experience in that facility and will focus on how that facility can improve their operational systems these improvement will help in the care and safety of the patients they are caring for. The standards that the commission have developed are based on feedback with patients as well as healthcare professionals and governmental agencies. The Joint Commission and the HIT professionals work in conjunction with one another to make a medical facility safe for the patients, as well as protect the facility. According to The Sentinel Alert Event a publication published by The Joint Commission , “As health IT adoption spreads and becomes a critical component of organizational infrastructure, the potential for health IT-related harm will likely increase unless risk-reducing measures are put into place.” The Joint Commission suggest there are three crucial areas where action need to be taken in order to reduce further harm caused by a faulty systems …show more content…
This area focuses on the analyzing, identifying and reporting hazardous situations, errors and close calls. They also propose “Comprehensive systematic analysis” of adverse situations that caused patients harm to see whether IT contributed to the event and what can be done in the future using Sittig and Singh’s “Eight soci-technical dimensions for safe and effective health IT.” The last area in Safety Culture is shared responsibility and involvement for the safety of healthcare IT among the healthcare facility, clinicians, and vendors to clearly define and document roles and obligation of all these