OTTAWA & TORONTO (January 17, 2019) — Accreditation Canada (AC) and the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH) today announced they have formed a strategic partnership. The goal of the partnership is to improve the quality of healthcare by combining the forces of two leading providers of accreditation services in Canada. This partnership will enable the provision of a comprehensive range of services and form the basis for integration of diagnostic accreditation to broader health system accreditation. This will make it easier for healthcare providers to integrate their diagnostic processes to the broader health system accreditation processes and benefit the patient through their journey on the continuum of care.

 

Make your professional development education plans for 2019 with the newly released Centre for Education Courses & Events Catalogue.

At IQMH we’re fortunate to have a dedicated and creative team of staff volunteers who participate in the IQMH Quality Team, set yearly objectives for their work and systematically go about meeting them.

The Quality Team is a Corporate Committee that reports to the Management Group and is comprised of representatives from:

Earlier this year, IQMH unveiled a new two-day course offering titled “Cause Analysis with Clarity – Medical Lab.

Our goal with this two-day in-class course is to tie together cause analysis processes that may be disparate in some organizations or confusing to some individuals. For example, many laboratories have distinctly separate processes for proficiency testing discordant findings, accreditation findings, safety incidents, complaints and patient occurrences/near misses. This seminar will tie these together and link them to one fundamental approach so that cause analysis is done systematically, consistently, completely and ultimately leads to improvements and mitigation of risk. Delivery techniques utilize real examples to illustrate the concepts presented, combined with case studies that allow the participants to apply the skills learned. 

On November 2, 2018, IQMH hosted our third large event for the year, a forum titled Point-of-Care Testing – Is it the Best Choice?
Gathered in the beautiful Westin Harbour Castle on a rainy November day, the over 150 attendees were treated to a panorama of perspectives surrounding point-of-care testing. Various barriers, questions and considerations were explored by fourteen speakers who each presented their own energetic 30-minute burst.