Healthcare Innovation April 23, 2024
Goal is to offer telehealth service providers with the structures and processes to help deliver high-quality care using a telehealth platform
The Joint Commission is launching a Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations, effective July 1.
The organization said the accreditation program provides updated, streamlined standards to provide organizations offering telehealth services with the structures and processes necessary to help deliver safe, high-quality care using a telehealth platform.
The Telehealth Accreditation Program was developed for healthcare organizations that exclusively provide care, treatment and services via telehealth. Hospitals and other healthcare organizations that have written agreements in place to provide care, treatment and services via telehealth to another organization’s patients have the option to apply...