Don’t automate broken processes—follow these process improvement steps first to lay a strong groundwork for automation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accreditation organizations expect ASCs to perform quality assurance performance improvement projects using a 10-step documented process, according to Surgical Information Systems Clinical Solutions ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor ...

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 ...

Industry Insights from Thomson Reuters Institute, a part of Thomson Reuters. How has the idea of process improvement taken hold within the legal industry in the wake of the pandemic? Fred Esposito of ...

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 ...

About 800 U.S. hospitals have earned accreditation from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) between 2017 and 2023 through programs aimed at improving the quality of surgical care. Researchers found ...