Joint Commission releases new website
Accreditation Connection, December 1, 2010
The Joint Commission has launched extensive upgrades to its website in order to improve access to information about healthcare quality and safety. Based on research with healthcare organizations, healthcare professionals, consumers, and the like, the new website features:
- Sign-ups for alerts to upcoming events, newsletters, and field reviews
- A “Daily Update” section with new information from the past 24 hours
- Enhanced search functionality and multi-media functionality for videos, podcasts, and RSS feeds
- Interactive features such as blogs, discussion forums, speaker’s bureau request forms, and options to share information with other people
- Easier navigation and search functionality
- A Joint Commission events and conferences calendar
Visitors to the site will still be able to access Quality Check, The Joint Commission’s search engine for Joint Commission certified healthcare organizations located within the United States and its territories, and a tutorial of the new site is available here.
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