Patient Safety: JC, NABH, NABL

JCAHO has officially been renamed JC. Short and sweet to remember. All stakeholders from patients to healthcare providers can now benefit from the easy to use, simple guidelines. I like the Patient Safety  area very much. [ https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/patient-safety-topics/patient-safety/ ]

Quality in healthcare delivery is not an option but essential. Even the healer can be a patient at times and that is when it hurts really hard. Medical equipment, technology, software are tightly regulated to assure 'Primum Non Nocere' - physician do no harm. Quality is a mindset beautifully exemplified by Toyota corporation with their TQM-total quality management philosophy. For a Japanese company to learn automobile technology from USA and Europe and replicate it in the Japan of 1945 that was emerging from the second world war with a clean reset was a moment. The Japanese penchant fro perfection be it in the art of tea making, ikibana (flower arrangement) or calligraphy flowed into industry. Quality was the single big factor which took Japan to world stage and compete with the likes of GM-General Motors, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi renowned car makers. TQM ensures quality assurance throughout starting from sourcing components from many OEM-original equipment manufacturers, to shop floor assembly, delivery and service. Medical equipment have top quality, does the system have even a fraction of that? Fact is no. If we get to bottom of the issue, it truly turns out to be gordian knot.

JC [https://www.jointcommission.org/], QCI-NABH [ https://www.nabh.co/ ], QCI-NABL [ https://nablwp.qci.org.in/ ] accreditation assures the end user of TQM in healthcare.

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Patient Safety: JC, NABH, NABL

JCAHO has officially been renamed JC. Short and sweet to remember. All stakeholders from patients to healthcare providers can now benefit fr...