Implementing an effective and sustainable continuous improvement (CI) program is hard work. It typically requires dedicated effort from multiple operations and CI leaders who, let’s face it, start out ...

As a patient advocate at the University at Buffalo’s School of Dental Medicine, Dianne Notaro has spent the last 13 years giving patients a voice and ensuring they receive the best care. “If I see a ...

Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...

Impact of Peer Review on Use of Hypofractionated Regimens for Early-Stage Breast Cancer for Patients at a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center and Its Community-Based Affiliates Comparing all phases, ...

In the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, quality and safety are at the core of everything we do. Our mission is to provide the highest standard of care to women through continuous quality ...

As he gives a tour of Temco Tool’s impressive facility on Holt Avenue in Manchester, Norm Gagne compares his main task as president of the company to that “of steering a boat.” In this case, the ship ...

Recent years have seen emergency departments (EDs) face escalating pressures due to rising patient volumes, unpredictable surges, and increasing operational ...

I recently ran a web search for the phrase “Continuous Improvement” just to see what the results look like. As one might expect, the results page contained web sites dedicated to one or more ...

While the higher education accreditation process has evolved through competition among agencies and federal policy shifts, there are opportunities to refine agency approaches and implement technology ...

Our ICSs will soon be coming up to their second birthday. They already have their hands full trying to break down historical cross-organisation silos in order to achieve their core objectives around ...