Patient safety remains a cornerstone of effective healthcare delivery, with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) emerging as a vital process for understanding and preventing adverse events. RCA is a systematic ...

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UChicago Medicine is one of 12 hospitals in the nation with a 26-year, Leapfrog straight-“A” streak and Stephen Weber, MD, said the secret is to never be satisfied. “Whether I’m seeing patients or ...

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

A new PCAOB spotlight report provides staff observations regarding the potential positive impact of performing a root cause analysis on the quality of audits performed by PCAOB-registered public ...

Failure to pinpoint cause of breaches leaves many organizations wide open to further attacks. Resource shortages, firefight pressure, planning issues, and lack of post-incident follow-up to blame.