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"Six Sigma For Manufacturing And Non-Manufacturing Processes: Six Sigma is a quality improvement and business strategy that began in the 1980's at Motorola. The statistical and problem solving tools are similar to other modern day quality improvement strategies. However, Six Sigma stresses the application of these tools in a methodical and systematic fashion to gain knowledge that...; Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process improvement, Six Sigma, quality improvement, business strategy, manufacturing, tool, knowledge, strategy; White papers
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...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Wisconsin, hospital, health care, patient; White papers 2005-08-30
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...; Tags: Project HOPE, quality improvement, physician, survey, knowledge, performance; 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;...; Tags: Project HOPE, disparity, state government, health care; White papers 2005-04-01
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....; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software product, software; White papers 2004-09-28

A Pragmatic Approach To quality improvement: From the executive summary: ‘The paper presents the story of a manager who made a huge contribution to supply chain effectiveness. The five-step approach to quality improvement, mentioned in the story, applied equal measures of common sense and creativity. The approach calls for encouraging people to select the leadership and...; Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., supply chain, leadership; White papers 2004-05-01
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...; Tags: quality improvement, neural network, modeling, manufacturing, technique, analysis, sales, industry, network; White papers 2004-04-28
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...; Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, electronic health record, quality improvement, physician, barrier, financial; White papers 2004-04-01
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...; Tags: quality improvement, practitioner, ethics, health care; White papers 2003-09-03
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,...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Siemens AG, quality improvement, health care, workflow management, decision support, process improvement, financial, patient, Human Resources; White papers 2003-08-26
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...; Tags: Quality Improvement, Framework, Viewpoint Corp., Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Management; White papers 2003-08-01
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...; Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, BioMed Central, electronic health record, quality improvement, patient, tool; White papers 2003-06-06
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...; Tags: Affinity Consulting, quality improvement, QA, barrier, strategy, industry; 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...; Tags: Quality, quality improvement, quality control, analysis, benefit; White papers 2003-01-01
The Search for Best Practices: The article talks about Benchmarking as one of a number of advanced quality improvement methodologies which may be integrated into a Total Quality Management system as it matures. Benchmarking is the search for best practices that will lead to superior performance in some business activity. It can enable quality improvement...; Tags: Performance management, benchmarking, best practice, Total Quality Management, performance; White papers 2003-01-01
Changing the New Product Development Process: Reengineering or Continuous quality improvement?: Organizations are changing their new product development processes in order to introduce improvements to innovation performance. The purpose of the study in the paper is twofold. First, to characterize the change process to examine whether the approach taken represents engineering, or continuous quality improvement. Second, to compare the...; Tags: Organizational structure, Product marketing, New Product Development, re-engineering, quality improvement, theory; White papers 2003-01-01
quality improvement: The quality paradigm has assumed great importance in modern day business scenario. Quality, today, stresses on the problem solving approach. A problem is any deviation in the work process from the ‘ideal’ scenario. Problem solving is the process of fixing the aforesaid deviations. The paper examines the problem solving concept...; Tags: Thomson Corp., deviation; Presentations 2003-01-01
Integrating Lean And Six Sigma For Breakthrough Process Improvement: ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949 differ from previous quality system standards in their strong emphasis on documenting and continually improving the organization’s product realization, management and supporting processes, which together make-up all of a company’s business processes. This paper promote the idea that organizations should adopt an integrated approach that...; Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, ISO standards, OMNEX Inc., process improvement, Six Sigma, ISO/TS 16949, Lean Manufacturing, ISO 9001:2000, standards, business process; 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...; Tags: Quality, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Team management, Total Quality Management, team, process improvement, re-engineering, training, barrier; 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...; Tags: quality improvement, technique; White papers 2002-01-01