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News
September 2011 – IBN made its Exemptee Certification Course available to the public.
June 2011 – IBN Exemptee Certification Course was reviewed and accepted by the California Department of Public Health Food and Drug Branch.
July 2011- IBN began work on its electronic medical record for homecare.
March 2011 - IBNExperience launched IBNLearning.com our web based learning management platform for educating our customers in many areas of their business. In addition to education IBNLearning.com lends itself to rapid requirement implementation when orientation modules, competency modules, and training modules are utilized during the implementation process. With IBNLearning.com an enterprise of any size can simultaneously orient, educate and train its personnel on a myriad of chosen topics. The system maintains student transcripts, issues certifications and CEU will be available in Q3 of 2011 through IACET.
February 2011 – IBNExperience launched “bFlow” for JCAHO and “iso.bFlow” for ISO 9001:2008. These webased applications enable rapid implementation of JCAHO and ISO requirements, manage policies and procedures, controls documents, and improve communication across our customer organizations.
February 2011 – IBNExperience launched ISOHealthForum.com - A forum for healthcare professionals who want to share information or are seeking advice on ISO 9001:2008 for healthcare.
January 2011 – IBNQuality LLC (IBNEperience) received ISO 9001:2008 certification.
Ted Jones said “I’m proud of my teams achievement and demonstrated commitment to quality. This certification sets our firm apart from other organizations who offer similar services, in many ways. The biggest distinction is that we live and breath ISO everyday… and our ISO and JCAHO customers know they are getting the very best service money can buy.”
Articles
Here are some articles that might help you decide on ISO 9001:2008, NIAHO, or Joint Commission Accreditation for your healthcare organization.
NIAHO vs. JCAHO – Evaluating the Choice JCAHO, until recently was the only game in town, has a viable challenger in DNVHC’s NIAHO. Now that there are two ways to achieve CMS-endorsed accreditation, hospital administrators need to decide which path to take. JCAHO has been accrediting hospitals for years with a well-established set of standards and survey methodology. NIAHO accreditation takes a different approach, i.e., requires ISO certification in addition to compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation. Plus, DNVHC surveys annually rather than every three years like Joint Commission. How do you choose? more…
From Joint Commission to NIAHO Since the turn of the twentieth century, healthcare professionals have been creating and applying standards to hospital care to ensure that U.S. medical care is high quality and subject to continuous improvement. The hospital accreditation process has been the major vehicle used to accomplish this goal and JCAHO has been the prime accrediting body…until now more…
“NIAHO Truly Simplified” DNV’s National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (NIAHO) combines CMS’s quality standards with ISO 9001:2008. This approach to accreditation is unique as it is the first to embed ISO into its body of standards. NIAHO offers many challenges to hospitals seeking to integrate quality-focused standards into its infrastructure, in part due to the newness of ISO to healthcare organizations and personnel who were raised by The Joint Commission. more…
