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(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software Inc., a leading supplier of advanced 3-D measurement solutions to manufacturers worldwide, has expanded into new corporate headquarters that includes a metrology training center.
Verisurf’s consistent growth is due to increasing implementation of…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- After nearly a year of debate, in March 2010, Congress passed and the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to reform the U.S. health care system. The most significant social legislation since the civil rights legislation and the…
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- Whatever your profession, systems thinking is critical for success in the global economy, according to speakers at the 2011 MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges.
The annual event, sponsored by MIT’s System Design and Management (SDM)…
(Thomson Reuters: New York) -- A new report has found that health care organizations that have won Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards for performance excellence or have been considered for a Baldrige Award site visit outperform other hospitals in nearly every metric used to determine the…
(Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y) -- An estimated 9.3 million American adults lost health insurance coverage as a result of increased unemployment during the recession of 2007–2009, according to a newly published study by researchers at Cornell, Indiana, and Carnegie Mellon universities…
(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- Gartner Inc. has released the findings from its third annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25. The research focuses on the health-care value chain’s pursuit of high-quality patient care at optimal economic cost. The Top 25 rankings for 2011 identifies organizations…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), a global nonprofit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has released a new guidance document on pharmaceutical commissioning and qualification titled, ISPE Good…
(The Leapfrog Group: Washington, DC) -- Sixty-five hospitals have earned The Leapfrog Group’s annual “Top Hospital” designation, equaling 2010’s record-setting total. The “Top Hospital” designation, which is the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning support technologies, announces the availability of St. Sigma, the new online teaching simulation for the classroom. St. Sigma is a customizable, data-rich learning lab where…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- According to a report by the Institute of Medicine, up to 98,000 deaths per year occur in U.S. hospitals as a result of adverse events. In other words, errors in hospitals cause more annual deaths than car accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. With the health care…
(NIST: Gaithersberg, MD) -- U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson announced four organizations—three health care operations and one nonprofit business—as the recipients of the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for performance excellence through innovation,…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Patient safety has been tackled in journal articles and conference proceedings, but there are very few books on the topic. And none consider how methods and techniques developed in the area of engineering can handle safety and human error-related problems, until…
(Worldwide Speakers Group: Alexandria, VA) -- Former U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and three-term governor, Michael O. Leavitt, has proposed a provocative plan to help revive the economy, drive productivity, and spur job creation: biomedical innovation.
In an article co-…
(RWJF: Houston) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced an Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) $100,000 “app challenge”—a competition among technology developers to create easy-to-use online tools that help consumers find information on the quality of their local physicians…
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a major catalyst for improvements in health care quality in the United States and around the world, will host its 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care Dec. 4–7, 2011, at the Orlando World Center…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A new report has found that health care organizations that have won Baldrige National Quality Awards for performance excellence or been considered for a Baldrige Award site visit outperform other hospitals in nearly every metric used to determine the 100 Top…
(Jossey-Bass/Wiley: San Francisco) -- The Health Care Data Guide, by Lloyd P. Provost and Sandra K. Murray (Jossey-Bass, 2011), is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data…
(NZTE: Christchurch, New Zealand) -- A new report by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise suggests that New Zealand can provide a valuable model for health policy makers and IT professionals seeking to reduce costs and increase the quality of health care in the United States and other nations. By…
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- The case studies throughout the book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management (McGraw-Hill, 2011), illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that show how the combination of lean, Six…
Editor’s note: IVANS is providing a 30-minute webinar on Sept. 22, 2011, at 2 p.m. EDT, demonstrating AuditDocs. There is no cost to attend the webinar. Register here.
(IVANS: Stamford, CT) -- IVANS Inc. a national health information exchange, is offering AuditDocs to save health care providers…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Lean Six Sigma could help reduce the soaring national debt but faces some key challenges in government implementations, according to a new survey by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the leading global network of quality experts. The biggest obstacle, survey…
(ASTHO: Arlington, VA) -- The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) has launched the first national voluntary accreditation program for public health departments. As a founding organization of PHAB, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) believes accreditation will…
(Thomson Reuters: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Health care spending is 10-percent higher for hospital employees than it is for the general employee population, according to a recent study by the health care business of Thomson Reuters.
The gap is wider when employees’ dependents are factored in.…
(IBM: Armonk, NY) -- WellPoint Inc. and IBM announced an agreement to create the first commercial applications of the IBM Watson technology. Under the agreement, WellPoint will develop and launch Watson-based solutions to help improve patient care through the delivery of up-to-date, evidence-…
(IRCA: London) -- The International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) has launched a new Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems (PQMS) Auditor certification scheme (ICH Q10), to support the assurance of global supply-chain integrity.
In a sector that has seen an increase in the…
