This month’s section meeting will showcases several recent Lean Six Sigma projects, that the speaker facilitated, at local healthcare facilities where Lean Six Sigma Teams made processes faster, better and less expensive, while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. The presentation will be interactive with comments and questions invited. Continue reading Section Meeting – Manufacturing Engineering Quality
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QUALITY IN BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
Bone marrow transplants are now routinely carried out worldwide to treat people with cancer and other disorders of the blood and immune system and are a prime example of a successful stem cell therapy. Stem cells from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood are used in transplantation procedures. From the first successful bone marrow transplant involving identical twins in the late 1950s to cutting edge research of today, the emphasis on quality has evolved and has led to the establishment of standards and regulations. This presentation will focus on a brief history of the development of bone marrow transplantation accreditation standards and regulations.
Presented by: Sharon Tindle, QA Manager, Bone Marrow Transplant Program
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September Section Meeting Reminder
Don’t forget to resister for the upcoming Section meeting where the discussion over dinner will be the role of quality in the transition to Value Based Reimbursement in Healthcare
There are plenty of seats still available:
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Austin Quality Conference – November 6, 2015
Take a journey in excellence listening and learning about the latest in Quality with topics including Leadership, Malcolm Baldrige, ISO 9000:2015, FDA Inspections and Healthcare.
November 6, 2015 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Crowne Plaza Hotel
6121 North IH 35 Austin, TexasRegister Here (early registration ending August 31st)
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September 2015 Meeting – The role of quality in the transition to Value Based Reimbursement in Healthcare
Many health care providers today receive a payment for each individual service they provide such as a physician visit, surgery, or blood test, and it matters to a lesser extent today whether these services directly improve the patient’s outcome. In other words, providers are paid primarily based on the volume of care they provide, rather than the value of care provided to patients. Emerging value-based reimbursement models increasingly require providers to prove that they’re meeting quality standards and benefitting patients while cutting costs. As a result, providers need actionable information to help them continually measure, monitor, and improve financial and quality performance. Furthermore, if they aren’t on track to meet quality standards, they need to be able to pinpoint root causes: Does performance differ by facility? Which providers are performing best and what can be learned from them?
To thrive in a value-based environment, health systems must develop the sophistication to understand their quality and cost structure in granular detail. Reducing every category of waste — e.g. waste that occurs when work isn’t standardized, waste that stems from unnecessary orders, waste that results from uncoordinated patient care — are all absolutely essential for improving margins.
Do these concepts seem familiar to you as a quality practitioner? If so, join us for a discussion of how quality professionals can support the transition to a value based reimbursement model in healthcare.
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March 2015 Section Meeting – Cause-and-Effect Analysis: Healthcare Case Study – Medication Errors
Join us for the March section meeting were the topic will be — Cause-and-Effect Analysis: Healthcare Case Study – Medication Errors
According to The Joint Commission, “Errors associated with medications are believed to be the most common type of medical error and are a significant cause of preventable adverse events.” Accordingly, medication errors have been named as one of the “never events” (i.e., events that should never happen). During this webinar, we will look at potential causes of medication errors using a cause-and-effect analysis, and we will look at process-based solutions for preventing these types of errors.
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Human Factors in Health Care Quality
Join us January 14th, 2014 for our monthly section meeting for a discussion of Human Factors in Health Care Quality.
In the last century, modern health care has made such progress with the biological understanding of disease and the technical control of trauma that medical error itself is responsible for more deaths than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. As the biomedical industry continues to make progress with other areas of disease and mortality, the final frontier of medicine will become the practice of medicine itself. Continue reading Human Factors in Health Care Quality
Cancelled – North Shore LIJ – Hospital Visit and Learning Event
Due to insufficient registrations we are deciding to cancel and post-pone this event at this time. If you purchased tickets they will be refunded via the payment method you selected when placing the order.
We we will come up with new date for this in 2014.