The healthcare industry faces the formidable challenges of rising costs and precarious profit margins. Elevated supply and labor costs, combined with structural revenue pressures, have created a ...

By using data to see patterns and trends, administrators can identify small changes that will help students make measurable ...

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is a strategic approach for developing a culture of continuous improvement in the areas of reliability, process cycle times, costs in terms of less total resource ...

The University of Tennessee at Martin set up a new process improvement facilitator position and gave the person who holds it no authority, no budget, and no staff. Yet that's the way he likes it, and ...

Process improvement can be a frightening concept. For many people, it signals the start of a downsizing cycle or at least a period of uncomfortable change. The truth is, process improvement has been a ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...

A recent survey shows 15% of healthcare revenue cycle leaders plan to invest in robotic process automation (RPA), up from zero a year earlier. But is now the right time for RPA for your revenue cycle ...

Small businesses need to remain continually agile to respond to a changing business climate internally and externally. Demand shifts and technology changes. Competitors enter the market. Businesses ...

Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...