American Accreditation Commission International

Harriet Smith, Risk and Safety Specialist – Healthcare — Harriet Smith Risk and Safety Specialist – Healthcare

Improving Patient Safety: Risk Management within Maternity Services (Apr 13)

Maternity services are particularly susceptible to risk; and although (in my experience in the UK) these services tend to be more risk aware than other specialties within a healthcare organisation, there is still a need to improve safety and reduce the number of adverse incidents. Maternity services must introduce a systematic approach to the management of risk, which involves all clinical staff, which continually evolves and which leads to improvement in the care that is offered to women and their babies.

John Davis Bell‚MD, President — John Davis Bell‚MD President

What is the the role of clinical pharmacologist? (Dec 23)

I have reviewed the communication received from our client with respect to the role of clinical pharmacologists in our hospitals. Careful interpretation and explanation is necessary.

Prof. Miroslav Harjaček,MD PhD — Prof. Miroslav Harjaček MD PhD

How the International Hospital Accreditation can help Hospitals avoid “Never Events” and curb defensive medicine (Oct 19)

Eliminating medication errors is a paramount goal for all health care organizations, but the path to this outcome is not always clear. Medication errors are often complex and rooted in systemic gaps.

Dorjan Marusic‚MD,Chairman Board of Directors — Dorjan Marusic‚MD Chairman Board of Directors

FROM OUTSOURCING TO PUBLIC – PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (Oct 7)

In business outsourcing involves the contracting out of a business process to another party. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another. It is also the practice of handing over control of public services to for-profit corporations. (1) Outsourcing includes both foreign and domestic contracting. (2) Financial savings from lower international labour rates can provide a major motivation for outsourcing or off-shoring.

Prices of healthcare services (Aug 28)

Professor Elio Borgonovi (Bocconi University Milan, Italy) published a study in which he came to the conclusion that policy makers at the heart of global economic challenges too often look at healthcare systems only in the context of identifying savings by means of budget cuts. However, if we want sustainable universal healthcare systems, the focus on solely financial aspects is not the only and correct orientation as social and political sustainability are at least equally important.

Poor communication and documentation is bad business (Aug 24)

Health care delivery is a complex enterprise that involves multiple interactions among multiple stakeholders. Research indicates that better patient care experiences via effective communication and documentation is associated with higher levels of adherence to recommended prevention and treatment processes, better clinical outcomes, better patient safety within hospitals, and less health care utilization.

‘Biggest Scandal in Global Healthcare’ (Jul 30)

Britain’s health secretary Jeremy Hunt has recently announced that the number of avoidable deaths which have occurred in the NHS in Britain is the ‘biggest scandal in global healthcare’. Is he correct? The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have produced research which states that 1 in 28 deaths could be attributed to poor patient care – and that 750 patients a month are dying unnecessarily.

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