Joint Commission Launches Wiki-Style Health Care Web Site
WikiHealthCare is The Joint Commission’s interactive forum for health care professionals. It is designed to enable and encourage discussion and collaboration among all users for the purpose of improving health care quality. While The Joint Commission provides the forum, users of the site control its content. Please see the Disclaimer for additional details.
In order to participate, you must Register. After you have registered, your own unique user page will be created. This page will include links to introductory materials and instructions on how to use the site (i.e., search for, create and/or edit site content). Please review the Policies and Guidelines before you create topics or edit existing topics on the site. You may also want to become familiar with the editing process by practicing in the Sandbox.
The site currently features only two topics, one of which is smoking
cessation while the other is smoke free hospital campuses. The commission will monitor the popularity of the new site
through September and report to its executive committee in October to
determine the extent of use.
The commission claims the site has more than 1,500 users, but only about 10 users now post to the site, Modern Healthcare reports.
http://wikihealthcare.jointcommission.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/WebHome
The commission would like practitioners from its accredited
organizations to use the site as a forum to provide suggestions and
feedback as the commission develops new standards and accreditation rules. WikiHealthCare is a community of health care stakeholders, intended to disseminate credible health care information
Users are invited to send feedback to: ihb@chcf.org
