Six Sigma in health care
Sunday, October 21st, 2007“Chopping the errors” in The Business Journal of the Triad (North Carolina) area reports work at the NC Baptist Hpsital to use Six Sigma methods to expand treatment without adding staff.
Archive for the 'Health care and medical' Category
Quality Management System for a Hospital
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007by Ann L. Wiley, STC Fellow, QPI SIG Founder
Hospitals have a range of activities focused on ensuring and improving safety, efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, access, and satisfaction. A quality management system ensures comprehensive and integrated effort leading to desired results. Such a system is highly dependent on data, reporting, documentation, and continual learning. This article describes selecting and implementing a quality management system in a hospital and includes the following: (more…)
Single Sourcing in an FDA-regulated environment
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006by Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, Inc., http://www.thecontentwrangler.com
Note: Scott posted this information on the Single Sourcing SIG email list in September, 2006 in response to a question about content management systems appropriate for pharmaceutical and medical device companies. It appears here by permission.
Content management requirements in life sciences are not anything like requirements for the average technical communication project. The life sciences company’s risk tolerance, current content life cycle processes, and much more determine the appropriate approach and control. (more…)
Quality measurement in health care: committee formed
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006According to Managed Care Weekly Digest, August 14, 2006, the AQA alliance (formerly Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance) and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), have formed a new national Quality Alliance Steering Committee to improve measurement of quality in health care. (more…)
Health care quality resources
Thursday, May 11th, 2006Quality management in health care is expanding, and this resource list will grow. To add information, leave a comment.
IWA-1:2001 - Quality Management Systems: Guidelines for Process Improvements in Health Service Organizations. ISO/AIAG/ASQ. Link current May 2005.
Quality blog: Healthcare Efficiency. Link current December 2005.
Medical devices and pharmaceutical standards and resources
Thursday, May 11th, 2006This list encompasses laboratories as well as medical devices and pharmaceuticals. If you have information to add, please leave a comment. (more…)
