SNQ (Symbol of National Quality) is built on a foundation of scientific evidence, establishing a quality-certification system that spans two major fields: healthcare services and health products. Today, SNQ has formed an international partnership with ICHOM, together building a quality-assessment framework for value-based healthcare and the health-products industry.
ICHOM (International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement) is a leading international organization in the measurement of health outcomes. Its accreditation centers on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).
SNQ and ICHOM are equal, complementary international partners, with expertise that reinforces one another.
Advancing the development and adoption of Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC) — shifting the focus from "how much was done" to "how well it was done".
At its core, SNQ applies a healthcare-quality model built on three dimensions — Structure, Process and Outcome — refined through nearly 29 years of evaluating Taiwan's healthcare institutions, assessing the quality system as a whole, including clinical teams, care processes and patient safety.
The foundational conditions of quality: clinical teams, facilities and institutional systems.
How care processes are carried out, and how patient safety is managed.
Within this model, PROMs form an essential part of the Outcome dimension — the very area of ICHOM's expertise.
SNQ refers and coaches Taiwan's medical specialties, integrating SNQ's evidence-based quality data with ICHOM's PROMs standards to help Taiwanese clinical teams align with ICHOM accreditation. By connecting both parties' data, the review process becomes more seamless — together building a complete framework for assessing healthcare quality and health outcomes.
Making Taiwan's excellence in quality a standard the world can trust.
A shared commitment to continuously improving healthcare quality and patient safety, laying a globally aligned quality-assessment foundation for Taiwan's healthcare institutions.
