Tag: Quality

Today was an exciting day at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 21st annual National Forum on Healthcare Quality Improvement. It's my first time here,...

Freeport woman sues hospital after biopsy mix-up This is really discouraging to see yet another serious specimen labeling mishap in a pathology department that's led...

Wachter's World: Can Patients Help Ensure Their Own Safety? More Importantly, Why Should They Have To? The whole subject of asking patients and families to...

Wachter's World : Physician Accountability for Violation of Safety Rules: The Time For Excuses Has Passed I think Bob Wachter has it completely right in...

Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner, Naida Grunden.Her book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care...

This is an old story, from May, that I've meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of...

This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their...

As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....

In this post, Mark compiles a range of eye-opening statistics about healthcare quality, patient safety, and medical errors. Acting as a repository of data,...

Hearst Press Release August 09, 2009This will be developing over the next few days. The Hearst newspaper chain has done a huge expose of...

I had the TV news on and I found this commercial... if you can make out the text it reads:"4.2L V8 ENGINE THE DELIVERS...

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Supports 'National Patient Safety Day' - Press Releases - CNBC.comI was walking through Boston Common this morning and saw a...