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Unified Accreditation System

last updated Mar 21, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Colombian Ministry of Health
Implementation Partner(s): 
Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación (ICONTEC)
Legal Status: 
State/government
Year Launched: 
2002
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Government
Summary: 

The Unified Accreditation System was created under Law 100, which extended universal health coverage for public and private health services, to improve quality and regulate the growing private medical sector.

Key program components: 

Under the Unified Accreditation System, established in November of 2002 under Resolution 1474, the MoH set up an accrediting entity to which it delegated the following responsibilities:

  • Find and train professionals to carry out accreditation
  • Standardize accreditation procedures and define the process through which organizations will carry out accreditation
  • Form an integrated group of specialists in the areas of management, evaluation, and quality improvement to make accreditation decisions
  • Develop, institute, and maintain a database of information on healthcare institutions that participate in the accreditation process, as well as disseminate information about the organizations achieving accreditation
  • Promote the accreditation system
  • Periodically inform the Ministry of Health about the state of the accreditation system

Under this program, Colombia's Institute of Technical Norms and Certification (Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación) was given the responsibility of revising and updating the accreditation standards manual every three years.

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