Findings of innovation research applied to quality management principles for health care

Article Abstract:

Health care practitioners were asked to identify and rank the obstacles that they are likely to encounter when trying to implement the total quality management (TQM) concept in their respective organizations. Health care professionals believed that the lack of proof that TQM could bring success was the greatest barrier to a successful TQM implementation. The study considered several factors that differentiated success from failure in innovation and improvement. Results of research work on innovations showed support for customer and quality mindedness. Future research work is recommended.

Methods, Management, Total quality management, Medical innovations

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Close to a bull's eye - a concurring opinion

Article Abstract:

A research study presents a concurring opinion of some of the assumptions made by Richard Johnson and Montague Brown on the past and future of the health and hospital fields. Emphasis was placed on the act of trying to benefit from past experiences to make health care more accessible and cost-effective. Medicine should be service-oriented as opposed to being profit-oriented. A macromanaged multipayer system that uses worldwide budget goals to control national health care expenditures is expected to take the place of managed care and capitated payment.

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Any possibility of an S&L-type debacle occurring in the health industry?

Article Abstract:

A crisis similar to that experienced by the savings and loan association sector in the late 1980s is likely to happen in the health industry. Several similarities in the conditions of both industries support this prediction. These include the economic effects of the continued rise in health care costs, underfunded entitlements that continue to bloat the national debt and social insurance obligations that will have to be paid in the future.

HEALTH SERVICES, Savings & Loan Assns, Savings Institutions, Economic aspects, Health care industry, Savings and loan associations

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