Anadolu Medical Center signed a strategic partnership agreement with Johns Hopkins Medicine International in 2002 to improve training and quality. This agreement facilitates the exchange of information between the doctors of Anadolu Medical Center and their colleagues at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore (Maryland), and enables them to share medical data and continue their training by video conference.
Under this agreement, the specialists of Johns Hopkins and Anadolu Medical Center can consult one another in the following areas:
- Review of architectural and technical designs and plans
- Creation of clinical and operational programmes
- Selection of medical equipment and technologies
- IT applications
- Hospital infection control policies
- Human resources and performance management
- Resource utilisation and clinical quality management
- Implementation of clinical pathways for the standardisation of healthcare services
- Patient safety programmes
- Compliance with Joint Commission International