Why Quality in Healthcare?
ASQ is a leader in providing resources, training, certification and networking opportunities to professionals in healthcare.
Quality professionals across all segments of healthcare use ASQ’s resources to improve:
- Quality of care.
- Patient safety and satisfaction.
- Organizational efficiencies.
- The bottom line.
Through partnerships with leading healthcare organizations like the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the American Hospital Association, ASQ works to enhance the use of quality improvement theories, methods and tools.
In Focus
Designing and Creating “Second Curve” Healthcare Systems (PDF, 63 KB)
by Ted Ball, Martin D. Merry, M.D. and Liz Verlaan-Cole
Ball, Merry and Verlaan-Cole write
about how the healthcare delivery systems in the United States and Canada are teetering on the brink of a “Second Curve” paradigm of development.
A Shift in Thinking (PDF, 57 KB)
by Martin Merry, M.D.
Merry describes how healthcare in the United States is evolving into patient-centered, or “second curve,” care.
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