As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...

HHS reported that healthcare stakeholders are making progress on national quality improvement goals. The 2013 Annual Progress Report to Congress on the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in ...

Almost two decades ago, the landmark report “To Err is Human” compelled healthcare to address the large numbers of hospitalized patients experiencing preventable harm. Concurrently, it became clear ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to support their decision-making. It’s enabled them to be more proactive rather than reactive, predicting and eliminating areas of ...

Lean Six Sigma is a continuous improvement methodology that focuses on the elimination of waste and reduction of variation from manufacturing, service and design processes. The Lean methodology aims ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix graduate nursing program uses the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ's) Quality Indicators (QI) Toolkit as a learning tool to help ...

Here are three ways hospital department managers can avoid push back or hesitance by employees during new quality improvement projects, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 1.

SAN DIEGO — The operations manual for the San Diego Sheriff’s Medical Services Division includes a section outlining the agency’s commitment to continuous quality improvement, or CQI — the old maxim ...