| Quality Digest

Roundtable Calls for Improving Quality, Accountability

(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois) -- Health care organizations, practitioners, purchasers, oversight bodies, and the public all rely on performance data to determine priority areas for quality improvement, evaluate performance, and make informed health care decisions.

Consumer Confidence Index Declines Again

(The Conference Board: New York) -- The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined sharply in February, fell further in March. The Index now stands at 64.5, down from 76.4 in February. The Expectations index declined to 47.9 from 58.0.

An Open Letter to the Leaders of Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors

America needs you to get your act together. This isn’t just about jobs, although many people are getting hurt because of your mismanagement of three of the most important name brands in America. You’re a symbol of what used to be the strength of America, and you have lost your way.

We Need a Quality Time-Out

Starbucks’ announcement that it would close for three hours on February 26 to retrain about 135,000 in-store employees sent shudders through the thousands of coffee fana

Streamlining Compliance

(Modulo: New York) -- In an effort to streamline its risk assessment and compliance processes, New York University Medical Center has selected the

Food Quality and the Global Food Supply Chain

(Journal of Supply Chain Management: Clemson, North Carolina) -- A new study from the Journal of Supply Chain Management illus

FDA in China

(FDA: Rockville, Maryland) -- In an effort to facilitate stronger cooperative relationships with its counterpart agencies around the world

Independent Testing and the FDA

(UCSF: San Francisco) -- The approval process for medical devices doesn’t involve the same rigorous review used for pharmaceuticals, and to imp

Pharma’s Transition from Paper to Pixels

The advantages to pharmaceutical companies of using electronic solutions to modernize their paper-based or partially electronic proce

Conference Spotlights Preparedness

(The Joint Commission: Oak Brook, Illinois) -- Representatives from the health care organizations involved in responding to recent disasters—the crash in Atlanta of the bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team, the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the de

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