“Quality improvement focuses on care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered.” Sowell, with extensive experience in healthcare and academia, joined SNHU in 2016 as ...

The 2025 AHA Leadership Summit wrapped up on July 22, and as always, it was energizing and inspiring to connect with so many ...

Examples include the 100,000 Lives Campaign and 5 Million Lives Campaign focused on patient safety, the development of the Triple Aim framework (better care for individuals, better health for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — To give professionals interested in health care an opportunity to develop valuable skills in business, management and quality improvement in health care delivery, Purdue ...

The past 25 years have brought a revolution in the attention to quality in health care, dating from the 1999 Institute of Medicine Report, “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” ...

For example, when a hospital decides they want to improve something or a primary care practice decides they want to improve something, they engage the patients for input and to get their perspectives.

Transform your career with Purdue’s 100% online Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Quality Improvement. By completing three hands-on courses, you’ll delve into healthcare processes, harness the power ...

The administrative team engaged with health services researchers to study formally the impact of a specific technology-based solution that would meet this requirement in a small sample of breast ...

Nurses are key to IT-enabled quality improvement They have a crucial role in improving healthcare technology usability, from testing to leadership, says Olga Kagan, RN, consortial faculty and ...

Using social risk adjustment in value-based payment programs would not mask poor quality of care nor would it disincentivize quality improvement. The absence of such adjustment does nothing to ...

H ealth policy circles have erupted in debate over a wonky administrative tool: the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) and similar metrics to value and price drugs and other health interventions. Rep.

Many stakeholders in the nursing home sector have overlooked the potential for HUD to play a role in nursing home quality improvement and long-term care transformation.