(APQO: Chicago) -- Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) recently announced the World Class Award winners of the International Asia Pacific Quality Awards.

The awards will be presented at the 16th APQO/International Conference on Quality in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept. 18–20.

(AHRQ: Rockville, Maryland) -- The Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently unveiled MONAHRQ—My Own Network Powered by AHRQ—a free, Microsoft Windows-based software application that significantly reduces the cost and time a state

(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Despite expensive increases in the cost of U.S. health care, Americans too often get mediocre results—or worse. National studies show that 15 million incidents of medical harm—e.g., drug errors, wrong-side surgeries, or infections—occur in the United States annually.

Value stream or other lean analysis helps identify the main obstacles to  flow in a process.