Where is the variability coming from and what have we done to minimize it? Textbooks and journal articles treat common cause variation as if it is an inevitable fact of nature and beyond our control: ...

Control charts that are properly constructed and maintained prevent false out-of-control signals and provide a useful method for monitoring a process. Process control is and has been an important ...

To reduce healthcare spending, hospitals and health systems strive to reduce variation in the utilization of certain treatments and medical services. Verras has increased the consistency of ...

Reducing clinical variation is a critical step to reign in America’s healthcare costs. In a recent Verras blog post, Dan Woods provides a brief case study of one hospital’s experience in reducing MRI ...

Repeatability is the measurement of variation when a process is done multiple times. Precision is the means of reducing variation in a process, so the results have less variation as a whole.

Special cause variation, I love to see it! That’s because I know I’m about to learn something important about my process. A ...

Advanced process technologies, such as 90nm, 65nm, 45nm and below, present significant power management challenges for high performance semiconductors. Chip designers face increasing challenges in ...

William Mohlenbrock, MD, founder and CMO of Verras and a practicing orthopedic surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., discussed physician variation in a recent webinar presented by ...