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 ...

Some time ago I met with the CEO of a major network provider. The exchange went like this: Author: “What makes you think that payers will ever agree to increased compensation—even for gold-standard ...

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 technologies available to ensure high-quality care and patient safety are varied, but all depend on data, especially from electronic health record systems, to ensure care providers are making the ...

For more than a century, the American health care sector has wrestled with the question of how best to improve the quality of the care it provides. Countless reports, commissions, government ...

Examples of Key Initiatives in the Broad National Quality-Improvement Strategy. This report presents data from a longitudinal cohort study that measured the quality of care in a representative sample ...

BRYN MAWR — The American Hospital Association (AHA) has announced that Main Line Health, which serves Philadelphia and its suburbs, has been named the 2023 recipient of the American Hospital ...

Defining High-Quality Palliative Care in Oncology Practice: An American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Guidance Statement Iterative planning ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 creates several new Medicare programs intended to improve health care quality, using “pay-for-performance” payment strategies to put ...

Saint Louis University's health care quality and performance excellence graduate certificate is for students who want to focus on areas of health operations management, including quality improvement, ...