DNV Healthcare Inc.,DNV Healthcare Inc., (formerly TÜV Healthcare Specialists (TUVHS) is a Norwegian-US

United States

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 health care

Health care

Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

 accrediting organization, which in the USA is an alternative to the Joint Commission. In 2007 Det Norske Veritas

Det Norske Veritas

Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas is a classification society organized as a foundation, with the objective of "Safeguarding life, property, and the environment". The organization's history goes back to 1864, when the foundation was established in Norway to inspect and evaluate the technical condition...

 acquired TUVHS.
DNV Healthcare's headquarters are in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

, with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

, and assessment staff based throughout the US.

It is responsible for the National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (NIAHO℠) program, an alternative to currently-available hospital accreditation

Hospital accreditation

Hospital accreditation has been defined as “A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organizations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously improve”...

  programs, which represents a quality management system

Quality management system

A quality management system can be expressed as the organizational structure, procedures, processes and resources needed to implement quality management.-Elements of a Quality Management System:# Organizational structure# Responsibilities# Methods...

 constructed in accordance with ISO 9001.

See also

• International healthcare accreditation
  International healthcare accreditation
  Due to the near-universal desire for quality healthcare, there is a growing interest in international healthcare accreditation. Providing healthcare, especially of an adequate standard, is a complex and challenging process...
  
  
• List of healthcare accreditation organisations in the USA
• Patient safety
  Patient safety
  Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events was not well known until the 1990s, when multiple countries reported...
  
  
• Patient safety organization
  Patient safety organization
  A patient safety organization is a group, institution or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. In the 1990s, reports in several countries revealed a staggering number of patient injuries and deaths each year due to avoidable adverse health care events...
  
  

External links

• Main web site
• http://www.nxtbook.com/ygsreprints/ygs/modh-1-25337720/ Modern Healthcare
  Modern Healthcare
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  Magazine article