Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

With the introduction of Partnership for Patients and other initiatives, healthcare organizations are focusing more than ever on improving patient safety. Quality improvement studies can help guide ...

3 Easy Steps to a More Effective Quality Improvement Program Implementing an effective quality improvement program is not only essential to achieving accreditation by the Accreditation Association of ...

My aha! moment about the zero-defect concept happened in 2009. We were discussing with a customer how to document all data created during the production process in order to enable a traceability ...

Electronic health record data can identify gaps in maps used for quality improvement for high-risk processes such as hospital discharge when using the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approach ...

The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...

Finish the year with a clearer view of the freight landscape in the December Edge Report from C.H. Robinson. Supply chain and logistics management in the emerging age of autonomous trucking The recent ...

Organizations are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to support their decision-making. It’s enabled them to be more proactive rather than reactive, predicting and eliminating areas of ...

Good managers seek to contain costs in the manufacturing environment. There is no better cost to eliminate than the cost of poor quality. Scrap material and lost labor hours add no value to the ...

As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...