General Electric (GE) has reported that its healthcare unit saw a 5 percent increase in revenues and a double-digit increase in earnings in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the first quarter of 2011.
Applying the Toyota business concept of Lean Manufacturing--a quality improvement (QI) method aimed at reducing waste--to radiology can spur optimized value and enhanced QI, according to an article published in the June issue of the
Journal of American College of Radiology.
Of 652 radiology mistakes reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA) in 2009, half were specifically related to wrong-procedure or test errors, according to a report published in the June issue of the
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. Another 30 percent of the incidents were related to wrong-patient errors.
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