The Ottawa Hospital has developed a simple template incorporating specific key Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation criteria that will allow clinical teams to annually self-assess their activities against the accreditation standards.

All CME educational activities developed and presented by a provider accredited by the ACCME system and associated with AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM must be developed and presented in compliance with all ACCME accreditation requirements in addition to all the requirements of the AMA PRA program. All activities so designated for, or awarded, credit will be subject to review by the ACCME accredita...

The ACR CT accreditation program, begun in 2002, requires the submission of approximately 20 images, several completed data sheets and printouts of three Excel worksheets. The procedure manual is very detailed, yet participants unfamiliar with the program or having minimal CT experience have needed to redo aspects of their submission, or in some cases do not receive accreditation, due to mistak...

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 1 9 9 9 I E E E S o f t w a r e 3 1 raditionally, to register as an engineer, you must first graduate from an accredited program. Consequently, to establish academic programs and to gain recognition as a profession, software engineering must have accreditation guidelines. The Software Engineering Education Project, a Software Engineering Coordinating Committee ...

BACKGROUND Aging is an inevitable part of life. One can maintain well-being and wellness even after discharge and/or transition if his or her functional decline is minimized, sudden decline is prevented, and functioning is promoted during hospitalization. Caring appropriately for elderly patients requires the systematic application of Senior-Friendly Hospital principles to all operating systems...

The Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) has proposed changes in the structure of the criteria used to accredit information systems programs. The new structure combines so-called “general criteria,” criteria that apply to any computing program, and additional program criteria that apply to IS, IT, or CS programs. This new format allows an emergingcomputing-discipline (e.g., bioinformatics) ...

1. Distinguish between the voluntary accreditation agencies in terms of their scope of hospital and managed care accreditation services. 2. Assess the impact of accreditation changes and key initiatives (in the late 1980s and early 1990s) on the evolution of continuous quality improvement and outcomes management. 3. Assess how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (J...

he Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terpia Celular (ABHH) and the American Association of Blood anks (AABB), previously called the American Society of Blood anks, have been working together since 2011 to develop a oint accreditation program for blood banking and transfusion, nd cell therapy services based on the AABB standards. The program is an accreditation model with inter...