The healthcare quality professional should be well acquainted with the principles of hand hygiene.
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Performance Measurement & Improvement
Evidence-based medicine and quality improvement offer complementary focus and methods to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.
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Healthcare leaders and clinicians will win patient loyalty and create customer evangelists by following some basic customer service principles and taking a long term view toward customer relationships.
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An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is the aggregate electronic record of health-related information on an individual that is created and gathered across multiple different healthcare organizations’ Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
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Organizations and individuals must continuously improve in order to remain relevant in a fast-changing world.
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Surgical robotic systems are increasingly used to improve precision, reliability and efficiency.
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For The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare’s first Robust Process Improvement (RPI) project, eight leading US hospitals used The Center’s Targeted Solutions Tool (TST) to improve hand hygiene compliance rates to more than 80 percent over a 28-month period.
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At TEDMED 2009, Eric Dishman, Director of Health Innovation and Policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group, discussed how disruptive technologies could assist with independent living.
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Clinical pathways have the potential to improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency, reduce lengths of stay, and decrease costs. But do they really?
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The Pareto Principle (80-20 Rule, Law of the Vital Few) is a valuable quality management tool because its application encourages a focus on the most crucial issues.
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