Do you know who is Deming? Do Doctors Need Deming?

Do doctors need Deming?   A paper from 1993 which is so true !

The Self-Designing High-Reliability Organization: Aircraft Flight Operations at Sea by Gene I. Rochlin, Todd R. La Porte, and Karlene H. Roberts

Navy did this by young solders with system safety process.
The Self-Designing High-Reliability Organization: Aircraft Flight Operations at Sea by Gene I. Rochlin, Todd R. La Porte, and Karlene H. Roberts

Human Factors in Health Care

Just attend a meeting of Applying Human Factors in Health Care. Learned a lot from people from different perspectives: doctors, nurse, perfusionist, engineers, psychologists, etc. More and more people start to look this discipline on the impact of patient safety. There are several very interested questions discussed during the session: should all the cardiac surgeons [...]

Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership

National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine published this book emphasized the need for two disciplines working together to address the health care and patient safety issues.

Fatal Airline Accidents Drop in Twenty Years

Since a 1997 goal to reduce the rate of airline accidents by 80 percent, fatal accidents have fallen. Fetal Airplant Crashes Drop 65%. See the New York Times Report.
Learn What Doctors can learn from Pilots about Safety.

Healthcare Systems Engineering Workshop

Industry Engineering and Operational Research in Health Care

Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University
http://www.purdue.edu/dp/rche/
IE Meeting
http://www.iienet2.org/shs/conference/default.aspx
OR Notes
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/contents.html