Abstract
Medical tourism (MT) is an amalgamation of healthcare and tourism industries. Medical tourism is gaining importance in recent years due to various additional services and benefits associated with MT packages. In order to meet the expectations of the medical tourist and create a delightful patient experience, the stakeholders such as hospitals, insurers, facilitators, and agents are more focused in offering ‘quality services’. As ‘Quality’ is the core criteria for any healthcare service, analysing the current medical tourism market, hospitals across the world are going for accreditation of their services to create a positive impression in the minds of medical tourists. An accredited healthcare facility is, of course, an eye catcher to the medical tourist in selection of the hospital. To facilitate this certification process, there are many organizations worldwide to offer healthcare accreditation. While few of these bodies accredit the healthcare facilities, few others will accredit the accrediting organizations. Thus, the present book chapter focuses on various healthcare accreditation bodies operating nationally and internationally.
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Abbreviations
- ACHS:
-
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
- ACSQHC:
-
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
- CBA:
-
Conformity assessment body
- CBAHI:
-
The Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions
- CPR:
-
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- GHA:
-
The global healthcare accreditation
- HCO:
-
Healthcare organizations
- HOP:
-
Hospital orientation program
- IAP:
-
International accreditation program
- ISQua:
-
The International Society for Quality in Healthcare
- ISQua EEA:
-
The International Society for Quality in Health Care External Evaluation Association
- JCAH:
-
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals
- JCAHO:
-
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- JCI:
-
Joint Commission International
- MT:
-
Medical tourism
- MTCC:
-
Medical travel care continuum
- MVT:
-
Medical value travel
- NABH:
-
National Accreditation Board for Hospitals
- NSQHS:
-
National safety and quality health service
- SAT:
-
Self-assessment tool
- UK:
-
United Kingdom
- UKAF:
-
UK Akkreditering forum
- USA:
-
The United States of America
- USD:
-
United States dollar
- VBT:
-
Value-based care
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The authors would like to acknowledge SDM College of Medical Sciences and JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research and thank them for providing the opportunity and the resources required for drafting this book chapter. Our acknowledgements are also due to The Special Interest Group in Patient Care Management (SIGPCM); Center for Distance and Online Education, JSS AHER.
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Hegde, K., Shylaja, K.C., Kundury, K.K. (2024). An Overview of Healthcare Accreditations in Medical Tourism. In: Chaudhary, B., Bhatia, D., Patel, M., Singh, S., Sharma, S. (eds) Medical Tourism in Developing Countries. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8909-6_5
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