In 2014, Don Berwick, MD, MPP, compared his months on the Massachusetts Gubernatorial campaign trail with Marco Polo's travels to the legendary city of Xanadu. Instead of [...]

The Military Health System (MHS) is a vast, global, integrated healthcare delivery system. One of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, the MHS manag [...]

Spending 44% of their work days on administrative and clerical tasks rather than direct patient care, it is no surprise that medical providers are currently experiencing [...]

This paper reviews the basics of Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC), followed by a discussion of how they have been adapted for project management (PM). Some of the b [...]

Incorporation of the stand-up huddle into traditional waterfall project management methodology can improve communication in complex, multi-site projects. Huddles are inte [...]

How do we best decide which projects to move forward? While a wide range of project and quality management tools and templates exist, little is available in the current l [...]

Introduction for the second collection of work from the School of Medicine's Division of Management. Jessica Walter comments that nearly all of the papers touch on the th [...]

The practice of medicine increasingly relies on machine intelligence. Most of the existing technology functions as tools to support human activity, but some emerging uses [...]

In 1981 the United States Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) expanded the legally recognized forms of death to either (1) the irreversible cessation of circulatory [...]

Abuse of patients by healthcare workers is an issue of serious concern for every hospital and healthcare facility. These investigations present a serious challenge to hea [...]