Computer Guided Hospital Accreditation Management System

Abstract

Hospital International Accreditation is a lengthy process, in which total integration of the hospital's management system is required in order to complete the process. Difficulties in obtaining data from all units and departments, matching between existing documents with the accreditation elements, and comparing the visual aspect of the hospital real condition with the requirement of the accreditation are factors that cause delay for the hospital getting international accreditation. In order to overcome this issue, a computer guided hospital accreditation management system is developed. The system has been developed based on the guideline of Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospitals 6th Edition 2017. There are four sections included in this system. The elements are classified according to conventional hospital management system including finance, human capital, business process, facility, clinical process, and information system. We classified the elements in the JCI Accreditation Standards according to the conventional hospital management system elements. In order to obtain the JCI by section, input from document review, field survey, system study, and automatic electronic measurement are applied. The user interface is implemented in the mobile apps. MIT App Inventor 2 software is used to implement this system. GUI for data input and result visualization has been also implemented in the mobile apps. The functionality test of the system is conducted. This includes the output-input relation and JCI score accuracy. We have also compared duration for data input and processing to produce output between the conventional method and the new computer guided method. Test results showed that the system is able to produce JCI score according to manual input with shorter input and processing time. This shows that the system is applicable for hospital management to accelerate the process of getting JCI accreditation.