Quality & Safety

Demystifying Brazil’s Hospital Accreditation Gap

Brazil has a shockingly small percentage of accredited hospitals due to financial and organizational challenges, especially compared to the U.S. and Canada.

Q&A: Global Healthcare Accreditation, Karen Timmons

Global Healthcare Accreditation CEO, and former President and CEO of the Joint Commission International, gives exclusive insight into the challenges involved with measuring and gathering medical travel data.

China’s Growing Prostate-Cancer Problem

A surgeon in Shanghai leads the battle on rising rates, poor outcomes and anatomical obstacles.

Are China’s Hospitals Safer from Hackers than the West’s?

A global cyberattack rocked Europe hospitals recently, but China seemed mostly unscathed. Here’s why.

Healthcare innovation extends to hospital lobbies in Catalonia, Spain

Spain’s Healthcare-Innovation Engine

The Catalonia region of Spain is a hotbed of new projects, and now it’s exporting the results.

Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, which has Joint Commission International accreditation, is used as a benchmark by other hospitals in Africa. Photo courtesy of Aga Khan University Hospitals.

A Kenya Hospital Merges Quality and Efficiency with Mission

Real-time operational metrics and staff development have helped make Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi a role model in Africa.

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