NABH
The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) 6th edition defines 651 objective elements across 10 chapters. OneCity builds the documentation, indicators and audit trails those elements require into the daily workflow so compliance accumulates naturally instead of in a pre-assessment scramble.
Why it matters
NABH accreditation is a signal to patients, insurers and government panels (PMJAY, CGHS, ECHS). Hospitals that run compliance as an afterthought fail assessments or lose accreditation at renewal.
Patient registration, triage, consent, assessment, care plan and discharge summary map directly to AAC objective elements. Registration captures demographics and consent; OPD records assessment and diagnosis; discharge summary follows the NABH format.
IPD nursing charts, medication administration records (eMAR), surgical safety checklists, critical-care charting and transfer protocols satisfy COP elements. Every clinical action is time-stamped and attributed.
Pharmacy enforces Schedule H/H1/X recording, narcotics register, batch and expiry, near-expiry alerts and drug-interaction flags — the medication-management chain MOM requires.
Consent management, patient portal access to reports and the right-to-information workflow support PRE. Consent captures purpose and timestamp per DPDP Act 2023.
Infection-control surveillance, antibiotic stewardship, hand-hygiene audits and antibiograms feed the data NABH's infection-prevention chapter requires.
Clinical KPIs — readmission rate, surgical-site infection rate, medication-error rate, falls, critical-value notification time — are computed from live data, not assembled for assessment.
Modules involved
Every compliance area OneCity covers ties into the same audit trail and quality tracking used across the platform, not a separate reporting system. For how this fits your broader accreditation planning, see our guide to NABH accreditation software. If you are sequencing this alongside other compliance work, our guide to realistic ERP implementation timelines covers how hospitals typically prioritise overlapping requirements. See our guide to choosing hospital management software for how compliance fits into the broader evaluation.
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Official sources
No software can guarantee accreditation — that depends on clinical practice, infrastructure and staff. OneCity provides the documentation, indicators and audit trails the standards require.
The 6th edition, current as of 2024.
Quality indicators and objective-element evidence are available from the system; formatting into NABH's self-assessment tool is a manual step.
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No software can guarantee accreditation — that depends on clinical practice, infrastructure and staff. OneCity provides the documentation, indicators and audit trails the standards require.
The 6th edition, current as of 2024.
Quality indicators and objective-element evidence are available from the system; formatting into NABH's self-assessment tool is a manual step.