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- Research articles 2007-04-01
- HHS Taking Steps To Address Goals For Quality Improvement; Institute of Medicine Report on Quality Improvement Released
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An initial analysis of recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine IOM in its new report, "Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality," shows that the DepaWASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An initial analysis of recommendations made by the...
- Research articles 2002-10-30
- Measure, Learn, and Improve: Physicians' Involvement in Quality Improvement
- Payers, accreditors, and consumers are using quality improvement QI methods, but little is known about whether physicians do so. The results from this 2003 national physician survey indicate that most do not. Physicians do not routinely use data for assessing their performance and are reluctant to share those data. They...
- White papers 2005-04-26
- Disparities and Quality Improvement: Federal Policy Levers
- Using a quality improvement framework to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care highlights multiple opportunities for federal and state governments to exert policy leverage, particularly through their roles as purchasers and regulators. Under such a framework, federal and state governments can expand their roles in collecting race/ethnicity data;...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Wisconsin Hospitals Committed to Quality Improvement
- The hospital industry has a long history of commitment to their core product, patient care. Wisconsin hospitals are leading the charge to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide to their customers. Over the past five years, the pace and dedication to this agenda has accelerated in...
- White papers 2005-08-30
- Physicians' Use of Electronic Medical Records: Barriers and Solutions
- The Electronic Medical Record EMR is an enabling technology that allows physician practices to pursue more powerful quality improvement programs than is possible with paper-based records. However, achieving quality improvement through EMR use is neither low-cost nor easy. Based on a qualitative study of physician practices that had implemented an...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Process Components For Quality Evaluation And Quality Improvement
- Processes and methods used for software construction have a high influence on the quality of the resulting software product. Therefore, the research in the field of method engineering should be more focused on quality aspects. Due to this reason, this paper proposes, process components for quality evaluation and quality improvement....
- White papers 2004-09-28
- Quality Improvement From The Viewpoint Of Statistical Method
- With the purpose of guiding professionals in conducting improvement projects in industry, several quality improvement strategies have been proposed which strongly rely on statistical methods. Examples are the Six Sigma programme, the Shainin System and Taguchi's methods. This paper seeks to make a rational reconstruction of these types of improvement...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Time Series Analysis For Quality Improvement: A Soft Computing Approach
- Quality improvement provides organizations with significant opportunities to reduce costs, increase sales, provide on time deliveries and foster better customer relationships. The design and manufacturing are among the critical processes for continuous quality improvement. Time series data collected from these processes are the useful source. While there are various techniques...
- White papers 2004-04-28
- Integrating Project Management Into A Six Sigma System
- For achieving organisational objectives, more and more businesses are now implementing quality improvement methodologies such as Total Quality Management, Total Quality Control and Six Sigma across all functional departments inside their organisations. All these methodologies do have their benefits, but the one that offers the most benefits is certainly Six...
- White papers 2008-02-24
- Pareto Analysis Step By Step
- Pareto Analysis is a statistical technique in decision making that is used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect. It uses the Pareto Principle (also know as the 80/20 rule) the idea that by doing 20% of the work you can generate 80%...
- White papers 2007-06-08
- Enabling The Healthcare Quality Improvement Cycle
- The key to improving quality in healthcare organizations is to ensure that unplanned events, issues, audits, reviews, and other quality and risk-related programs are managed effectively and performed consistently. It is important to optimize existing events and processes by applying, monitoring, and improving the key elements of the quality improvement...
- White papers 2009-09-03
- How Siemens? Computerized Physician Order Entry Helps Prevent the Human Error
- Healthcare systems in most countries are struggling with the increasing demand for healthcare services, increasing cost, limited financial resources and an increasing public demand for substantial quality improvements. Efficiency gains can help overcome these challenges. Increased automation in healthcare, utilizing electronic solutions designed for process improvements and active workflow management,...
- White papers 2003-08-26
- Crunching Data: The Key to Six Sigma Success
- Quality improvement programs come and go in health care and other industries. Many CIOs remember the days when Total Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement were the de rigueur programs that promised to squeeze the inefficiencies out of the care delivery process. This article reports that six-sigma quality programs work,...
- White papers 2004-04-13
- The Potential of Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support Quality Improvement Work and Research
- This white paper in detail talks about Electronic medical record EMR systems that are used for many purposes including patient care, administration, research, quality improvement and reimbursement. This study is aimed to test a data extraction tool QTools and to provide information to support the interpretation of EMR data. This...
- White papers 2003-06-06
- The Ethics of Quality Improvement: Practitioners' Perspectives
- Innovation is an essential component of quality improvement QI activities that aim to improve the provision of health care. These projects, however, engender ethical and regulatory issues around human subjects' protections. The author compared findings from the literature review with interviewees' perspectives. Participants' perspectives differed most from the literature...
- White papers 2003-09-03
- Quality Improvement: A Front Line View
- In many industries and business sectors there has been an evolution over the past fifteen years and a distinct shift from the "quality assurance" approach to the broader, more encompassing "quality improvement" concept. In spite of the broad recognition and adaptation to continuous quality improvement, there continues to be a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Re-engineering and TQM: Approaches to Organizational Change told as a "Tale of Three Villages"
- Many organizations implementing Total Quality Management TQM, start with vague directives with little clarity on what to do. Other organizations become victims of their own success. Their initial quality improvement teams may be so successful they rapidly create more teams, without the qualitative organization-wide changes necessary to sustain a permanent...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Quality improvement
- Quality Improvement is basically, the actions taken throughout the organization to increase the effectiveness of activities and processes to provide added benefits to both the organization and its customers. In simple terms, quality improvement is anything which causes a beneficial change in quality performance. All beneficial change results in improvement...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Effectiveness of Quality Improvement: Learning from Evaluations
- The effectiveness of many quality improvement interventions has been studied, and research suggests that most have highly variable effects which depend heavily on the context in which they are used and the way they are implemented. Article introduces us with its three important implications. Firstly, it means that the approach...
- White papers 2002-01-01
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