Tag: Quality

One of my favorite newspaper writers is Ed Wallace of my local Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Wallace appears in the Sunday automotive section and usually...

This article caught my eye recently: "Canada leads in surgical mishaps." By "leads," the article means they have a high number of mishaps (which...

Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr....

As mentioned in Monday's post with Podcast #131 (Paul Borawski, CEO of the American Society for Quality), ASQ had a contest where members could...

Listen: My guest for episode #131 is Paul Borawski, the CEO of ASQ, the American Society for Quality. Today, we are talking about ASQ, their...

This made news on Wednesday - Dr. Donald M. (Don) Berwick stepped down as CMS Administrator: "Harvard professor Don Berwick resigns as Medicare chief."...

I'm still looking for a published news source for this, but I learned earlier today from Paul Borawski, the CEO of the American Society...

It's sometimes said (and I believe this to be true) that "100% inspection isn't 100% effective" (it seems like Dr. W. Edwards Deming might...

American hospitals are concerned (understatement!) about their future revenues as healthcare reform gets implemented. I heard one senior executive tell his staff, "We are...

Some people might find this graphic inflammatory, if they are feeling defensive about the state of healthcare and if they feel like they are...

I was happy to attend the first football game of the year for my alma mater, Northwestern, as they defeated Boston College last Saturday....

When I recently interviewed Paul O'Neill and Dr. Richard Shannon about the amazing improvements in patient safety that had been made in the Pittsburgh...