A new report in The New England Journal of Medicine found that Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program did not improve measures in clinical process or patient experience and was not associated ...

Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...

The following article is written by Daren Smith, RN, director of clinical services, for Surgical Management Professionals. Are you in charge of coming up with meaningful quality improvement studies ...

CLEVELAND – A new study from University Hospitals (UH) Connor Whole Health describes a process-improvement study undertaken to improve documentation consistency and increase the capture of ...

With the introduction of Partnership for Patients and other initiatives, healthcare organizations are focusing more than ever on improving patient safety. Quality improvement studies can help guide ...

Accreditation doesn’t just recognize quality, it helps create it: In this large-scale analysis of American College of Surgeons quality accreditation programs, the authors found that the accreditation ...

The importance of refining healthcare processes has never been more pronounced. In the Physician MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, I learned process improvement—among other ...

> Big spending by drugmakers on new facilities is giving way to a focus on manufacturing processes by, in part, using scalable technologies that allow for smaller, highly targeted projects. Story ...

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