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Healthways Wins Silver for Its Process Improvement Initiatives At World Conference on Quality and Improvement
- 2008-06-03
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) today announced its process improvement team was awarded the overall Silver Award at the American Society for Quality ASQ International Team Excellence competition during the World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Houston, Texas. The prestigious International Team Excellence Award event is the...
APQC Presents the 2008 C. Jackson Grayson Distinguished Quality Pioneer Medal Winners: Don Berwick, Blanton Godfrey, Al Gore, Jerry Weast
- 2008-05-06
Inaugural Award Recognizes Quality Pioneers in Government, Healthcare and Education MILWAUKEE & HOUSTON -- APQC, a nonprofit benchmarking and best practices organization, presented the inaugural C. Jackson Grayson Distinguished Quality Pioneer Medals (www.apqc.org/graysonmedal) today in Houston at the American Society for Quality's ASQ 2008 World Conference on Quality and...
CALENDAR
- 2007-12-01
To receive information or to register forASQ Education Courses and Conferences, contact Learning Offerings, ASQ, 600 N. Plankinton Ave., Milwaukee, Wl 53203, call 800-248-1946 or 414-272-8575, fax 414-272-1734 or visit www.asq.org.JANUARY14-15 International Conference on Design of Industrial Experience. Antwerp, Belgium. Visit www.ua.ac.be/doe or e-mail doe@ua.ac.be.15 Greater Fort Worth New Member...
Information Access Top Priority in Decision to Join, Study Says
- 2007-09-01
ASSOCIATIONSASQ, along with 17 other associations, participated in a study to determine why members and nonmembers join or consider joining their organizations. The American Society of Association Executives headed up the project, called the "decision-to-join" study.ASQ received responses from 756 of its members (25.2% response rate) and 498 nonmembers (14.9%...
The Weibull Analysis Handbook
- 2007-08-01
The Weibull Analysis Handbook Bryan Dodson, ASQ Quality Press, 2006, 167 pp., $54 member, $90 list book and CD-ROM).The second edition of The Weibull Analysis Handbook provides readers with a quick reference to the Weibull distribution, its origin, characteristics and applications. This book also provides software in an accompanying CD...
Member Dues Increase
- 2007-04-01
ASQThe ASQ Board of Directors recently voted to increase member dues slightly for the 2007-2008 renewal season. According to a study done by the board, the cost of delivering member benefits and services increased 6.4% in the past year.Membership applications began reflecting the dues increase in March. Following is a...
Managing Contract Quality Requirements
- 2007-04-01
Managing Contract Quality Requirements C. Robert Pennella, ASQ Quality Press, 2006, 256 pp., $36 members, $60 list book.Managing Contract Quality Requirements is an excellent, no nonsense, no frills, highly meticulous book providing an exhaustive blueprint for developing a comprehensive, efficient contract that benefits both the customer and the supplier.Pennella covers...
Adults More Concerned About Rising Cost of U.S. Healthcare Than Iraq War
- 2007-03-22
ASQ Survey Shows Overwhelming Support for Universal Coverage MILWAUKEE -- The rising cost of U.S. healthcare is a pressing concern for 85 percent of U.S. adults1, according to a recent survey sponsored by the American Society for Quality ASQ and conducted by Harris Interactive([R]). In fact, healthcare costs overtake...
MAILBAG
- 2007-01-01
Supplier Partnership Not Always an OptionJoel Ericson's "Lean Inspection Through Supplier Partnership" (November, p. 3d) seemed behind the times.My company's just-in-time customers do not perform incoming inspection, and supplier manual inspection is not an acceptable solution. Our customers expect error proofing either by prevention at a workstation or detection at...
Everyday Excellence
- 2006-06-01
Everyday Excellence Clive Shearer, ASQ Quality Press, 2006, 272 pp., $24 member, $40 list book.Everyday Excellence: Creating a Better Workplace through Attitude, Action and Appreciation is not a typical quality instruction book. It covers the soft stuff that is hard to get right in management. It provides short, easy-to-understand lessons...
Quality Pros Break Through the Healthcare Barrier
- 2005-11-01
Some of the best baseball umpires never played the game.Bringing an outsider's view to a coaching or mentoring position can help bring dramatic and sorely needed changes to an industry or profession. These changes can increase efficiency and ultimately improve an organization's quality and bottom line.Such is the case with...
Healthcare Reception
- 2005-07-01
100 ATTEND: A full house of about 100 attended a special senior leader and quality Healthcare reception and program held during the conference. Half of the attendees were conference registrants and half were healthcare professionals from the Seattle area. Pictured are the program's speakers: I to r Richard Peterson, CEO...
Convention Stresses Importance of Pharmaceutical Quality
- 2005-05-01
HEALTHCAREKeynote speaker Lucian Leape, M.D., gave a passionate presentation about improving the safe delivery of healthcare to the American public at the March meeting of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention Inc. USP in Washington, DC. The 185th anniversary of the United States Pharmacopeia was celebrated during the meeting.The convention is...
Conference Focuses On Redesigning Care Systems
- 2005-04-01
HEALTHCAREMore than 100 quality professionals in the healthcare industry networked and learned about continual improvement methodologies such as error proofing, systematic problem solving, balanced scorecards and the Baldrige criteria at ASQ's Quality Institute for Healthcare Feb. 14-16 in New Orleans.Co-sponsored by ASQ, the American Hospital Assn. and the American Society...
The Human Side of Change Leadership
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- 2005-04-01
The importance of the human side of change cannot be underestimated. If the human element is neglected or left to chance, the improved process implementation can be prolonged, the change effort can become more frustrating, the resulting benefits can be diminished, and the entire improvement can...
Sustaining Membership Upgraded With Added Benefits
- 2005-02-01
ASQWith the new year, ASQ has redesigned its sustaining membership program, with enhanced benefits. The redesign followed member and corporate research.Changes include e-section membership, one forum/division membership (with more at $10 each), electronic access to all ASQ journals, an electronic newsletter, strategic initiative (such as economic case for quality and...
ASQ News
- 2005-01-01
HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE ADDS PRESENTERS Two additional presenters have been named for the Quality Institute in Healthcare Feb. 14-16 in New Orleans. They are Gary Yates, M.D., a recipient of the American Hospital Assn. AHA Quest for Quality Award, and Don E. Detmer, M.D., president and CEO of the American Medical...
Safety smarts: try these ideas that work.
- 2004-09-01
Keeping safety meetings on track To make monthly safety meetings more active and inclusive for attendees I often try to incorporate some type of interactive activity. The "Six Thinking Hats" is a technique I learned at a lecture given by the American Society for...
New Member Model Designed for Flexibility
- 2004-04-01
ASQA membership approach featuring additional benefits and higher dues for regular members and two new categories with reduced benefits and lower dues has been approved by ASQ's Board of Directors.The board expects the model to make ASQ membership more attractive by allowing options tailored to meet individual needs and dues...
Salary Survey Then and Now
- 2003-12-01
The first time ASQ then ASQC ever collected salary information on its members was in 1986; the first annual salary survey report appeared in the April 1987 issue of Quality Progress. (In 1982, QP did publish a series on the status of the quality profession that included salary data from...
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