Inside ISO 50001
There is a new international standard published June 9, 2011, that might just warrant your attention.
There is a new international standard published June 9, 2011, that might just warrant your attention.
“We can do better” was the underlying takeaway message from the 15th annual Mayo Clinic Quality Conference. This year’s theme was “Creating and Paying for Value in Health Care.”
About six years ago I was meeting with a clinical team to kick off an early improvement effort at their hospital. We began with a reflection on the problems with traditional business management practices.
According to the National Center for Health Care (NCHC), emergency department (ED) crowding has been a concern in U.S. hospitals for more than a decade.
Critical care units at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York, were faced with a formidable task.
Read this. It won’t be a waste of time.
In business there’s a saying: Time is money. The more time it takes for something to get done, the more money is wasted.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying of pneumonia each year.
A new year always brings new hope, new plans, and new perspectives. While looking ahead is the most direct route to progress, looking back is essential to understanding the present. After all, the past creates the consequences that will shape the future.
Melanoma is one of the less common types of skin cancer, but it accounts for the majority of skin cancer deaths (about 75%).
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