Baldrige Winner Southcentral Foundation Personifies Quality Health Care
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A New York Times editorial, “A Formula for Cutting Health Costs,” highlights the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
FDA Proposes Unique Device Identification System for Medical Devices
(FDA: Washington, D.C.) -- In response to requirements in legislation that passed Congress with broad bipartisan support, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier, or UDI.
Overcoming Miscommunication Among Caregivers
(Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare: Oakbrook Terrace, IL) -- An estimated 80 percent of serious medical errors involve miscommunication between caregivers when patients are transferred or handed off.
Linking Cost and Quality of Patient Outcomes Drives Improvements
(ThedaCare: Appleton, WI) -- The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has published a new white paper, “Measuring Value: Linking Cost and Quality of Patient Outcomes to Drive Organiza
<em>Healthcare Kaizen</em>
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Healthcare Kaizen, by Mark Graban (Productivity Press, 2012), focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or kaizen, for health car
ISPE and FDA Discussed Strengthening Safety at Joint CGMP Conference
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) just concluded its two-day current good manufacturing practices (CGMP) conference, which was co-sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
We Can Have Health Care at Half the Cost? Yes!
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- There is a secret inside health care, and it’s this: We can do health care for a lot less money. The only way to do that is to do it a lot better. We know it’s possible because it is happening now.
Study: $20 Billion in Health Care Incentives May Be Wasted
(ZS Associates: Evanston, IL) -- While incentives can be an effective motivator in health care, a new study from global consulting firm ZS Associates suggests that more than 75 percent of incentives are so small or poorly communicated that they go unnoticed by providers.
Smooth and Easy Clean Up for Food Industry
(Eagle: Tampa, FL) -- Eagle Product Inspection has launched the Eagle Pack 400 HC, an energy-efficient X-ray inspection system designed for easy and efficient cleaning in the harsh wash-down environments of the packaged mea
Open Up the Data and Cure Health Care Ills
(Kauffman Foundation: Kansas City, MO) -- Cost trends in U.S. health care consistently increase at about 2.5 percentage points faster than the general rate of inflation—clearly an unsustainable rate.