Insights
Driving Efficiency at All Levels: Organization, User, Provider
Everyone knows time is money, and healthcare consumes too much money. Therefore, it stands to reason that a major objective for hospitals and...
Reverse Engineering an Optimal Performance Improvement Process
In technology circles, reverse engineering is the process of starting with a given end state, such as a product, device, conceived process or...
Bouncing Back from a Hospital Safety Penalty
In December of last year, the federal government penalized 751 hospitals for having high numbers of patient injuries, retroactively reducing their...
Prista Named One of 2017’s Most Promising Quality Management Solution Providers
CIOReview recently recognized Prista Corporation as one of 2017’s “20 Most Promising Quality Management Solution Providers,” and we’re proud to have...
Increasing Efficiency in 2018
It’s the beginning of a new year, and in 2018 the healthcare industry would greatly benefit from better utilization of resources. U.S. health care...
PDCA vs. OODA: Facilitating a More Effective Improvement Methodology
As we work to continually evolve Prista’s ActionCue Clinical Intelligence (CI) application as the leading performance improvement workbench in the healthcare market, we often dig into the essence and science of improvement itself. The ActionCue application not only embodies well-designed and powerful information processing, but also demonstrates an awareness of the principles and psychological aspects of improvement methodologies.
Quality Improvement Performance Indicators: Prioritizing Your Data
In a recent blog post, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality shed some light on an area of concern for many hospitals: the prioritization...
Is Your Quality-Safety System Really a Do-it-Yourself Project? Should it be?
We frequently describe ActionCue Clinical Intelligence as redefining and facilitating the management process for quality-safety improvement....
Re-Thinking: Four Ways to Advance Healthcare Quality and Safety
For decades, I practiced and taught others a model of developing new software products in which the creator begins with at least two innovation...