How does Core Measures fit into the ORYX initiative?
With the introduction of ORYX, over 200 performance measurement systems were approved by JCAHO for transmitting data on behalf of accredited hospitals and long term care organizations. However, over the years it became apparent that clean data comparisons between healthcare organizations could not be made because of the lack of standardization across ORYX measures and specifications across systems. Since there were approximately 8,000 ORYX indicators to choose from, valid comparisons could only be made between healthcare organizations using the same measures that were designed and collected based on standard specifications. This led to the idea of developing “core” or fully-standardized reporting measures.
