Facilities

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)

MIOT International is accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH), established by the Quality Council of India. The board has established exhaustive healthcare standards for medical institutions in the country with stringent objective elements, all of which MIOT Hospitals is compliant with.

Valid until: Feb 17^th 2025

National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories Certificate of Accreditation – Department of laboratory Medicine

National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) is an autonomous body under the aegis of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, and is registered under the Societies Act 1860. NABL provides laboratory accreditation services to laboratories that are performing tests / calibrations in accordance with ISO 15189:2012 for medical laboratories.

NABL accreditation system complies with ISO/IEC 17011:2004 and Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) MR001. Based on evaluation of NABL operations by APLAC in 2000, NABL has been granted signatory member status by APLAC and International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) under their Mutual Recognition arrangements (MRAs).

Certificate No: MC-2982

Valid until: 17^th October 2023

Scope of testing

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)

MIOT International has been assessed and found to comply with NABH accreditation standards for medical imaging services.

Valid until: April 28th 2026

Sigma metric verification of performance

MIOT Hospitals becomes the 1^st laboratory in India to achieve the Sigma Verification of Performance. MIOT has proved being a living example of a department showing great courage to “think out of the box ” by implementing Sigma across all phases of the laboratory testing process from the time of lab test billing to reporting of patient results.

The word Sigma is a “measure of reduction errors in a work process”. Sigma is a numerical grading system starting from 1 to 6 and above. “Higher the grade of Sigma, lesser the number of errors, which ultimately signifies better quality”. The Sigma concept was introduced into the world of industry in 1980 to improve quality and it became a dictum in industrial sector that when the quality of a product or a process reaches a Sigma score of “six” (SIX SIGMA), the product or process has reached “world-class quality “!! .

The idea behind implementation of Sigma in the field of Clinical Laboratory Medicine was conceptualised in early 2000 by Sir. James Westgard, considered as the ‘Father of Quality of Modern Laboratory Medicine’. The key objectives of this ideology was to bring in an order to objectively monitor, measure and reduce the errors in results reported by a Clinical Laboratory, since more than 70% of clinical decisions are made based on the Laboratory results.

Westgard Corporation initiated a sigma certification program in the USA for medical laboratories a decade back. Many medical testing laboratories from around the world have enrolled for this program and achieved Six Sigma certification from Westgard, except laboratories from India. The Department of Laboratory Medicine, MIOT Hospitals is the first in India to drive the noble initiative in implementing the concept of sigma in hospital practice and having succeeded in achieving Six Sigma certification from Westgard Corporation.

Implementation of sigma as a quality tool across all phases of testing in a clinical laboratory significantly helps to improve patients ‘ safety, by reducing the errors and improving the quality of results reported to patients.

The widespread fear in the minds of many clinical laboratories moving in the path of national accreditation bodies like National Accreditation Board for Medical Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) and international accreditation bodies like the College of American Pathologists (CAP) regarding the use of sigma in quality management shall be eradicated from their minds, since none of the accrediting bodies are against the use of quality tools like sigma or lean as a part of quality management system.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine, MIOT Hospitals has ultimately succeeded in becoming the first Indian laboratory to receive Westgard Six Sigma certification and implementing Sigma as part of laboratory practice across all phases of testing process for patient safety.

For more information on certification : https://www.westgard.com/sigma-vp-miot-india.htm