Malaysian hospitals told to stop chasing ISO 9000

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Chua Soi Lek, Malaysia's Health Minister, criticized his country's hospitals for devoting too much of their attention to securing ISO 9000 registration, saying that hospitals get their accredidation but at the cost of focusing less on the real duty, which is to care for patients. The health minister also believed that if hospitals wanted to get accreditation, they should instead go to Joint Commission International just like what neighboring countries Thailand and Singapore are doing.

Government regulation, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Malaysia, State Safety NEC, Evaluation, Medical care, Medical care quality, Licensing, certification and accreditation, Hospitals, Health-officers, Health officers, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, International Organization for Standardization, Hospital accreditation, Chua Soi Lek

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Meeting the quality challenges

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Certified quality practitioners address problems within the healthcare organization. Dr. Marash of The SAM Group suggests combining the strategies of quality planning, lean enterprise, and quality improvement to execute cost reduction of healthcare organization. Information on quality practices at EtQ, Inc., IBS, JMP, Minitab, Pragatek Consulting Group, Ltd., SAS Institute, SGS and StatSoft are presented.

United States, Switzerland, Executive changes & profiles, Investment Offices, Investment Companies, Open-End Investment Funds, Investment Funds & Trusts, Methods, Officials and employees, Marash, Sustainable Asset Management Group

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FMEA- the cure for medical errors

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The use of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) in health care design facility to reduce error is presented. The various stages of FMEA and recommendations for its successful implementation are detailed.

Control, Medical errors

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