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(RAND: Santa Monica, CA) -- After a decade of experimentation with reforms that give health providers financial incentives to improve performance, relatively little is known about how to best execute such strategies or judge their success, according to a new report from RAND Corp.
A comprehensive…
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has announced that three U.S. organizations will receive the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary leadership. All of this year's winners are…
(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Are you passionate about quality? Do you want to lead tens of thousands of like-minded quality individuals? Then this job is for you.
The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is looking for a new CEO. According the job posting on ASQ's site:
"The next CEO will lead and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- As most of you have likely heard, the federal government is shutting down due to a lapse in funding. While this will undoubtedly create hardship for many who work for and/or rely on services from the government, I am happy to inform you that the Baldrige Program will…
(Spectral Evolution: Lawrence, MA) -- The worldwide counterfeit drug market continues to expand, both in developing and developed countries. From fake antimalarial drugs in Africa to counterfeits sold over the Internet, these drugs are detrimental in three primary ways: • Patients don’t receive the…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology today officially unveiled HexagonMetrologyU, the first e-learning portal designed to engage and support the metrology industry. The interactive platform debuts over 30 online courses covering metrology fundamentals, basic and intermediate…
(CBI: Woburn, MA) -- For the past eight years, CBI’s Product Recalls Series has led the way in providing key updates and best practices for successful execution of drug, device, and diagnostic recalls corrections.
CBI’s Annual Product Recalls Summit, being held in Indianapolis on June 11–12, 2013…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- It’s been said that the one of the most prestigious qualifications a professional can have is to say that he or she was part of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners. To say you served as a Baldrige examiner and were part of building American…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Letitia Baldrige, sister of Malcolm Baldrige, died Mon., October 29, 2012, at the age of 86. In announcing her passing, her son Malcolm Hollensteiner told the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Inc., that “she loved the board and took such pride…
(Banner Medical: Carol Stream, IL) -- Banner Medical executives Vince Adams, vice president of Sales, Marketing and Strategic Planning; and Bob Khin, quality assurance director; along with Peter Johns, supplier quality manager for Pioneer Surgical, will participate on a faculty panel at the…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A New York Times editorial, “A Formula for Cutting Health Costs,” highlights the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, Southcentral Foundation, and how it has achieved “startling efficiencies: emergency room use has been reduced by 50 percent, hospital…
(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. In addition to patient harm, defective hand-offs can lead to delays in treatment…
(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 Organization and Industry Improvements.” This health care value report illustrates the power of value metrics in improving…
(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 care professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means “change for the better,” as…
(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. In pockets and branches across health care, people are…
(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. As a result, more than $20…
(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 meat, poultry, and dairy industries, where daily sanitization of equipment is…
(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. To address what it called "America’s most urgent public policy problem," the Ewing Marion Kauffman…
(Instron: Norwood, MA) -- Instron, a leading provider of testing equipment solutions designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, has launched BioBox, a controlled air environment ideally designed for testing of large or long medical devices at body temperature. The…
(ThedaCare: Appleton, WI) -- ThedaCare has announced the launch of Potent Medicine: The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare, the latest title from award-winning author John Toussaint, M.D., of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value.
Potent Medicine (ThedaCare, 2012), outlines the essential…
(NTOCC: Washington, D.C.) -- The National Transitions of Care Coalition (NTOCC), an organization dedicated to improving patient transitions through the health care system—i.e., when the patient leaves one care setting and moves to another care setting—has launched a new tool to facilitate the…
(Booz & Co.: New York) -- Confirming pessimism about the state of the pharmaceutical industry, a recent survey of U.S.- and European Union-based pharmaceutical sales and marketing executives reveals that 68 percent believe “the current business model is broken.” The survey, conducted jointly by…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well into…
(Lenox: Trevose, PA) -- Lenox Instrument Co.’s Micro Borescope delivers a clear, bright image ideal for close-range inspection of medical devices like coronary stents; tubing; micromolded, machined, and cast parts; and electronic and mechanical assemblies—particularly where access is limited and…
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent nonprofit organization that works with health care providers and leaders throughout the world to achieve safe and effective health care, will host its 13th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in…