Dr. Brent James is a leader researcher and visionary on healthcare improvement. He describes in this presentation the key essentials for becoming a high performing healthcare organization. These essentials include a vision, a model and transparency. Transparency is often discussed in healthcare, and Dr. James describes why the conventional view of transparency is insufficient.

Scholarship sponsored by Parallon Workforce Solutions 

Ali is an industrial engineering student at Clemson University in the B.S./M.S. program. While at Clemson she has conducted various healthcare research projects with Dr. Neyens and Dr. Childers. These include examining visitor hand hygiene for utilization improvement and time studies in clinical settings. As an intern, Ali was also involved in several applied healthcare projects at Northeastern University's Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute including CLABSI reduction and studying patient flow through a clinic. She is the president of Clemson's Chapter of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School.

Children's hospitals' solutions for patient safety makes big gains in reducing hospital acquired conditions

In less than three years, more than 80 children's hospitals have joined together to share successes and failures transparently and agreed not to compete with each other on patient safety. Member organizations have reduced falls by 81 percent, ventilator acquired pneumonia by 47 percent, adverse drug events by 42 percent, and surgical site infections by 19 percent.

2015 is already the year of the healthcare hack 

More than 120 million people have been affected by more than 1,100 separate breaches at organizations handling protected health data since 2009, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2015 is being considered the year of the healthcare hack, during which consumers will need to closely safeguard their health information.

Google, J&J partner to create robots
 

Ethicon, a J&J company, will work with Google to develop new robotic tools and capabilities for surgeons and operating room professionals that integrate best-in-class medical device technology with leading-edge robotic systems, imaging and data analytics.

Healthcare Payment Network launched

President Barack Obama unveiled plans for a network that will develop new models for healthcare delivery and payment during a March 26 White House kick-off meeting.