One of the more interesting segments of this year’s New York Hospital Executive Briefings was an update on its Intracycle Monitoring program, under which the Focused Standards Assessment–the process that will replace the Periodic Performance Review–is found.

Presenters gave the audience a first look at the website where this will take place and walked through the various options they will have.

Perhaps most notable is that, unlike the PPR, it appears the FSA will not require hospitals to review every single standard and Element of Performance–there will be standards and EPs that are flagged as required, including those the organization previously received RFIs on, but it is up to the organization itself whether they want to do a complete, top to bottom standard review. This allows hospitals more flexibility in how to handle their annual review.

What do you think of the FSA and intracycle monitoring? Will this be an improvement over the PPR?

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