Benchmarking leading countries' accreditation programs for ambulatory healthcare organizations

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modern and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphas...

Strategic Faults in Implementation of Hospital Accreditation Programs in Developing Countries: Reflections on the Iranian Experience

Establishment of hospital accreditation programs is increasingly growing across numerous developing nations. Such initiatives aim to improve quality of care. However, such establishments, mainly incentivized by successful and famous accreditation plans in developed countries, usually suffer from lack of necessary arrangements which, in turn, result in undesired consequences. Indeed, the first p...

Does accreditation stimulate change? A study of the impact of the accreditation process on Canadian healthcare organizations

BACKGROUND One way to improve quality and safety in healthcare organizations (HCOs) is through accreditation. Accreditation is a rigorous external evaluation process that comprises self-assessment against a given set of standards, an on-site survey followed by a report with or without recommendations, and the award or refusal of accreditation status. This study evaluates how the accreditation p...

Hospital Quality Oversight by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Program Criteria for Software Engineering Accreditation Programs

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 1 9 9 9 I E E E S o f t w a r e 3 1 raditionally, to register as an engineer, you must first graduate from an accredited program. Consequently, to establish academic programs and to gain recognition as a profession, software engineering must have accreditation guidelines. The Software Engineering Education Project, a Software Engineering Coordinating Committee ...