Healthcare: Quality Standards and Certifications
Description
Comprehensive overview of the major quality frameworks, accreditation processes, certification programs, and continuous improvement strategies governing healthcare organizations and services globally.
Learning Objectives
IT professionals will understand essential quality management systems, accreditations, and certifications for healthcare, apply relevant standards, and support quality improvement processes in digital health environments.
Topics (8)
Overview of quality management drivers, continuous improvement goals, and the global regulatory quality landscape.
Accreditation processes, compliance, audits, and quality management implementation for high-reliability organizations.
Processes for attaining/maintaining certification; audit, documentation, digital reporting, and process optimization.
Frameworks for continuous improvement, data-driven decision support, and IT-enabled implementation.
Overview of role-based certifications (Certified Professional in Human Factors in Health Care, Lean Black Belt, ACA, etc.).
Key audit processes, real-time monitoring with IT tools, scorecards, reporting, and continuous certification requirements.
Explores documentation, reporting, analytics, and digital record-keeping requirements to support standards achievement.
Focus on international convergence, future-proofing, digital innovation, environmental and population health quality standards.