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Internationally Accredited Hospitals In India
International healthcare accreditation
Due to the near-universal desire for quality healthcare, there is a growing interest in international healthcare accreditation. Providing healthcare, especially of an adequate standard, is a complex..
* This is occurring in most parts of the developed world in a setting in which people are expressing ever-greater expectations of hospitals and healthcare services. This trend is especially strong where socialised medical systems exist. For example..
Healthcare and Hospital Accreditation
Fundamentally healthcare and hospital accreditation is about improving how care is delivered to patients and the quality of the care they receive. Accreditation has been defined as "A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation..
* In the USA in the first part of the 20th century, there was concern over how to best create an appropriate environment in which clinicians could work. Standards to better control the hospital environment were thus generated, and these subsequently grew into accreditation schemes with the remit to facilitate and improve organisational development...
* Accreditation systems are structured so as to provide objective measures for the external evaluation of quality and quality management. Accreditation schemes should ideally focus primarily on the patient and their pathway..
Q. What is International Healthcare Accreditation ?
A number of larger countries engage in hospital accreditation that is provided internally. Taking the USA as an example, numerous groups provide accreditation for internal healthcare organisations, including the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP)...
* Some other countries have looked towards accessing the services of the major international healthcare accreditation groups based in other countries to assess their healthcare services. There are many reasons for this, including cost, a desire to improve healthcare quality for one’s own citizens good governance...
* This process of accreditation has been made increasingly complicated by the fact that in many parts of the world, more and more human beings are choosing to cross international borders to access healthcare, a phenomenon known as “medical tourism” or "Global Healthcare"....
The reasons why patients are seeking out medical tourism/Global Healthcare options are manifold : -
1. healthcare may be too expensive at home
2. waiting lists may be too long
3. patients wish to access treatments not available at home (e.g. stem cell therapy, termination of pregnancy, unlicensed medications, gender re-assignment surgery)
4. patients wish for greater confidentiality than may be feasible at home (e.g. HIV/AIDS treatment, infertility treatment, gender re-assignment surgery, face lifts)...
International Healthcare Accreditation and the Consumer
How does an individual contemplating becoming a medical tourist ensure that the overseas healthcare they are planning to access is as safe as possible and is of adequate quality ? For sure, it is not simply a matter of looking at hospital buildings and at mattresses..
what is often more important may include such issues as : -
* the standards of governance in the hospital or clinic
* the helathcare providing establishment’s commitment to self-improvement, and to learn positively from errors
* the overall medical ethical standards operating within the organisation
* the clinical staff’s ethical standards and their personal and collective commitment to caring for patients and the wider community...
Umbrella organisations
The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) is an umbrella organisation for such organisations providing international healthcare accreditation. Its offices are based in the Republic of Ireland. ISQua, is a non-profit, independent organisation with members in over 70 countries...
Q. How does a hospital or clinic choose who to go to for international healthcare accreditation services ?
If a hospital or clinic simply wishes to improve its services to patients wherever those patients come from (locally or from further afield), or wishes to attract medical tourists, how do they choose...