ABSTRACT
Argentina's healthcare system is a mixed system consisting of public, private, and social security subsectors. A number of healthcare government initiatives and a great many non-government projects are currently being developed and implemented. Among these is the Categorizing Authorization Program (CAP), which aims to unify standards for the licensing of public and private services across the country while developing the operational and technological capacity of healthcare services. In 1983, the National Health Ministry established the National Program of Epidemiology and Hospital Infection Control to address the problem of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Argentina. In 2014, Technical Institute for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (ITAES) received International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) accreditation for both standards and on-site institutional assessment. The Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), established in 2000, has had a further significant impact on quality and patient safety. In Argentina, health technology assessments are conducted by both the private and public sector.
