Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

Providers often apply root-cause analysis when examining medical errors or adverse outcomes, but hospitals could apply the same approach to determine which admissions may be preventable. That's the ...

During a recent visit to a skilled nursing facility, a nurse made an insightful comment that stuck with me: “You can’t unscramble eggs.” This simple yet profound statement highlighted the difficulty ...

UChicago Medicine is one of 12 hospitals in the nation with a 26-year, Leapfrog straight-“A” streak and Stephen Weber, MD, said the secret is to never be satisfied. “Whether I’m seeing patients or ...

This week I have been exploring how you can work to operationalize your compliance programs in ways you perhaps had not considered previously. Today I want you to consider Prong 1 of the Evaluation of ...

During usability testing, finding the root cause of errors will enable developers to fix problematic device design characteristics. Stephen B. Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA and Peter Sneeringer, MS The most ...

One of the defining challenges of advanced packaging lies in maintaining traceability as dies move through multiple ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A few decades ago, simply knowing how your business was performing was a competitive ...

Using Rapid Cycle Improvement (Plan, Do, Study, Act) to Design a Scalable Appointment Scheduling System for Complex Oncology Clinical Trials at an Academic Cancer Center We searched the National ...