The growth of scientific management in the early 20th century equipped the business community with various tools designed to reduce costs and improve efficiency. In most companies today, organized ...
Quality improvement (QI) in health care is an activity in which intentional change in processes and systems of care is attempted in a methodical, reflective and iterative manner in order to improve ...
Through 2007, ill-defined IT deliverables, misaligned business expectations, and unknown performance levels, combined with economic pressures, will force more than 30% of IT organizations (ITOs) to ...
Improving patients’ shared decision-making abilities in healthcare requires arming them with timely, accurate, ...
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 ...
When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...
Managing change and overcoming employee resistance and fear requires a proactive approach. As the ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, wrote back in 500 BC, “The only thing constant is change.” This ...
The higher education accreditation system relies on infrequent, resource-intensive reviews that occur every five to 10 years, often creating lags in identifying and addressing quality concerns at ...
HealthDay News — A quality improvement intervention does not reduce in-hospital mortality for critically ill patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs), according to a study published in the ...