A performance improvement initiative for physicians can significantly increase their use of evidence-based practices in screening for and treating depression, researchers report. Depression is a ...

Accreditation organizations expect ASCs to perform quality assurance performance improvement projects using a 10-step documented process, according to Surgical Information Systems Clinical Solutions ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implementation of a multifaceted performance improvement program concentrating on education, accountability and ...

Pay-for-performance and public reporting programs have successfully focused hospitals’ attention on quality. But they have also had unintended consequences, including encouraging a narrowing of focus ...

A performance improvement initiative for physicians can significantly increase their use of evidence-based practices in screening for and treating depression, in the July Journal of Psychiatric ...

Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...

To drive performance improvements within its trauma program and the state designation process, Tacoma, Wash.-based Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital enlisted the help of Philips healthcare ...

The following is excerpted from Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management by Bahadir Inozu, Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, and Charles ...

Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, Texas, reports saving $2.8 million in one year using a performance improvement program. Knapp executives said the program, developed by the Premier health alliance, ...

Steve Banker is Service Director, Supply Chain Management, at ARC Advisory Group ...