When it comes to quality and safety improvement, healthcare leaders spend plenty of time analyzing adverse events and what led up to an unfavorable outcome. At NYC Health + Hospitals, leaders are ...

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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 ...

A new PCAOB spotlight report provides staff observations regarding the potential positive impact of performing a root cause analysis on the quality of audits performed by PCAOB-registered public ...

Nutritional Healing, a clinical nutrition practice in Appleton, Wisconsin, continues to distinguish its approach to healthcare by prioritizing the identification of underlying health issues rather ...

You’ve heard of probable cause. You’ve found the root causes of problems. But what is plausible cause, and why should we care? After all, plausible cause isn’t even an entry in my favorite dictionary ...

Over 50% of frontend ASIC hardware engineering time is spent on debugging and root cause analysis, spent churning through millions of lines of code and terabytes of waveform data. Despite this, there ...

Kiwa PI Berlin has fixed faults in inverters at a PV plant in South Africa by using root cause analysis. The project had experienced up to 130 failures related to insulated gate bipolar transistors ...

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

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 ...

The 2023 ECCP re-emphasized the need for both performing a root cause analysis but equally importantly using it to remediate your compliance program. It stated, “a hallmark of a compliance program ...

How can finance functions add more value? It’s a challenge accountants and finance professionals in business and industry increasingly face. One way to boost efficiency and productivity is by speeding ...