Belgian ICU National Registry
The MICA Program (Monitoring Intensive Care Activities) has been designed by the Belgian Ministry of Health and the Intensive Care College and aims to encourage the use of quality and performance indicators in Belgian ICUs, in addition to contributing with data to the ICU National Registry, improving knowledge on the epidemiological profile of intensive care and high-complexity patients in Belgium.
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Why join the MICA Program?
The MICA Program was validated and approved by renowned Belgian hospitals in 2017. It encourages ICU management through quality and performance indicators, helping to improve the quality of Belgian intensive care medicine. Such indicators can also be used in decision making for better resources allocation and best practices, ensuring patient safety. In addition, data automatically populate the database of the Belgian ICU National Registry, which is one of the main objectives of the MICA Program, enabling the analysis of the epidemiological profile of patients in Intensive Care Units in Belgium.
Read the official document issued by the government on the MICA Program. Download: French or Dutch
Participating Hospitals
How does the MICA
Program work?
Clinical and epidemiological data on high-complexity patients are collected using the Epimed Monitor system, a management software that allows you to integrate structured data from any hospital system and/or input data manually if the Hospital does not have a structured information system.
Capturing such data using this tool generates indicator reports very quickly and easily, in addition to real-time benchmarking between the intensive care units participating in Belgium and participation in the National Registry database.
What does the MICA Program offer to its participants?
Dashboards and reports
Access to management reports and national and international benchmarking in real time.
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Dashboards and reports
Access to management reports and national and international benchmarking
Dynamic and Interactive Dashboards
Novel reporting models to support management and decision-making.
Benchmarking
Improve efficiency analyzing your performance indicators and by comparing outcomes and resource use with + 650 hospitals.
Strategic Benchmarking
The Strategic Benchmarking of the Epimed Monitor system is an advanced benchmarking tool comparing efficiency, case-mix and performance of ICUs worldwide
Points in the P4P
Points in the Belgian Government’s P4P (Payment-for-Performance Program) program.
MICA Certificate
Participating hospitals receive a Certificate issued annually by Belgian Intensive Care College, proving their participation in the Belgian ICU National Registry.
MICA National Day
Free access to the program’s annual event – “MICA National Day”, with the participation of renowned speakers.
Testimonials
Read below what physicians participating in the MICA Program are saying:
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Dr Alain D’Hondt
CHU Ambroise Paré
“MICA is finally a Belgian project which provides a powerful inter-hospital benchmarking tool, with a view to establishing a better assessment of the hospital landscape of intensive care in Belgium, instantly and on a daily basis.”
Dr. Serge Brimioulle
MICA Committee
“If you want to perform better, find a tool to evaluate how well you perform.”
Dr. Niels Van Regenmortel
ZNA Stuivenberg
“We use the data for future projects, strategies and policy makers. Epimed Monitor ICU system, the official tool of the MICA Project, figures out are perfect for this, as we can better justify the needs we have.”
Dr. Koen De Decker
OLV Ziekenhuis Aalst
“Now we have better insights to calculate in real-time many indicators like Standardized Mortality Rate (SMR). The main goal is to use the information provide by the Epimed Monitor ICU system in the MICA program to give a feedback and motivate the whole team of the ICU.”
Dr. Patrick Biston
CHU de Charleroi
“The MICA program allows me to have a vision of day-to-day and medium-term service management. Qualitative analysis is particularly important.
Furthermore, the MICA program can help us manage the COVID-19 crisis and other pandemics so that we do not rely on incomplete data and strategies.”
Join us
Join the MICA Program
and contribute to the Belgian ICU National Registry.