The recipients of this year’s John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards include a network of children’s hospitals that has saved an estimated 10,000 children from harm and a large health system that has achieved a more than 60% decrease in hospital-acquired patient harms.

Global professional services firm Huron and the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, a nonprofit affiliate of The Joint Commission, announced that they have entered into a collaborative agreement to create a series of workshops centered around high reliability strategies for healthcare organizations.

The Joint Commission (TJC) has selected health insights company Apervita to enable thousands of accredited hospitals with ORYX data reporting requirements to directly and more easily submit electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) data in 2018—a move, TJC officials say—that streamlines an annual process required for hospitals to obtain and maintain accreditation.

An increased number of U.S. hospitals are adopting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to drive quality improvement, The Joint Commission reports in its 2017 annual report, America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety. The agency has also identified six primary priorities among those that are successfully implementing eCQM adoption and practice.

In response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final rule on emergency preparedness to ensure health care professionals and suppliers meet the needs of patients, residents, clients, and communities during emergency events and throughout recovery, The Joint Commission is announcing updates to its emergency management requirements, effective November 15.

Four books published by The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources, Inc. have been named “Doody’s Core Titles in Health Sciences for 2017”. The annual Doody’s Core Titles list recognizes the best titles published within a variety of medical specialties.