Tag: Quality

Medical Errors in Hospitals Still Occur at Alarming Rate

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It has been over 10 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's study on preventable medical errors: To Err Is Human: Building...

Lean Guy Drove a Prius For Two Years And…

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... I wasn't impressed in the least. In my previous role as a consultant, I was given a company vehicle to use, even though...

Great Op-Ed from Paul O’Neill on REALLY Improving Healthcare

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Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...

Medical Mistake in In-Vitro Fertilization: What’s More Effective, Blaming Process or...

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IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online This was front-page news in one of the UK...

Cost Crisis for the NHS? Quality Improvement Can Help?

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Britain's health service "facing funding crisis" | Reuters:Watching the BBC morning news the other day, I took an interest in the discussion of the...

Pathology Mistakes (Again) on Oprah and in the News

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After watching and blogging about the first half of Oprah's medical errors show that featured the story of Dennis Quaid's kids, I finally got...

Detroit Medical Center Radio Ad – Selling Quality and Patient Safety

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Thanks to XM Radio, I was able to listen to Sunday's Detroit Red Wings playoff game and the WJR radio broadcast from Detroit (the...

Networking with Bison and Doctors

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Lean Leap to Health Care #3 (click for Part #2) by Scott McDuffee It would seem to be an efficient method to move into Health Care...

Standardized Work Should Not be Robotic – Especially in Healthcare

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Why 'Quality' Care Is Dangerous - WSJ.com Yesterday's WSJ opinion piece by Dr. Jerome Goopman (author of How Doctors Think) and Pamela Hartzband caught my...

Following up on the Peanut Corporation… Snap, Crackle, Salmonella?

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Following up on these two earlier posts (here and here)... I'll quit calling them the "Idiot Corporation of America" since the Peanut Corporation of...

Better Healthcare Quality Won’t Cost Less This Way

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Device Alerts Doctors To Items Left Behind After Surgery - Indiana News Story - WRTV IndianapolisHealthcare is often stuck in the mindset that's considered...

Dennis Quaid and a Discussion of Medical Mistakes Coming Up on...

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Dennis Quaid Takes Oprah To Hospital That OD'd His Babies This might be the first time I'm DVR-ing the Oprah show. Tomorrow, actor Dennis Quaid...