POSTS TAGGED AS quality improvement

Manufacturing Management in Hospital Operations

“Toyota,” “Lean” and “Six Sigma” are manufacturing concepts aimed at improving efficiency and quality in making inanimate products [MORE]

Surgical Improvement Program

Currently, there are about 250 hospitals in the US that do surgery quality assessments based on the American College [MORE]

Insurer Funds Hospital Quality Improvement Studies

California’s largest health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross (Woodlands Hills, CA) has appropriated $6m for on-line quarterly conferences with doctors [MORE]

Lean Techniques in Clinical Trials

Clinical trial staff at Mayo Clinic’s three campuses (MN, AZ and FL) studied their procedures for carrying out internally authored [MORE]

If Toyota Ran Your Hospital: Cutting Healthcare Costs

Every year, Virginia Mason Hospital (Seattle, WA) CEO Gary Kaplan takes a group of his staff on a trip to [MORE]

Hospital Readmissions Squeeze

Last month, CMS began its Care Transition Projects which aims to develop a number of interventions to cut down on [MORE]