Organizations are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to support their decision-making. It’s enabled them to be more proactive rather than reactive, predicting and eliminating areas of ...

New AI Quality Management certification helps professionals integrate artificial intelligence into quality improvement, ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Optimizing Obstetric Care Quality Initiative was launched to address persistently elevated obstetric length of stay (LOS), which had drifted two standard deviations above peer benchmarks. Early ...

Almost two decades ago, the landmark report “To Err is Human” compelled healthcare to address the large numbers of hospitalized patients experiencing preventable harm. Concurrently, it became clear ...

Workforce diversity in medicine, particularly at the highest levels of health care leadership, remains an elusive goal. In the United States, 3.6% of medical school faculty are Black, 3.3% are ...

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality ...

In analyzing the data, one of the biggest gaps APQC saw is between KM programs that are integrated or tightly partnered with the IT/information strategy function and those that are not. The difference ...