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		<title>Tips for designing your quality improvement spreadsheets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among our healthcare customers we find substantial use of Microsoft Excel. A recent survey of CHARTrunner customers found that 68% of them use data in Excel to produce their SPC charts and other analysis related to quality improvement. Excel is powerful and flexible and well suited to this job. However, this power can lead to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.pqsystems.com&amp;blog=5110862&amp;post=376&amp;subd=pqsystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New hospital accreditation organization approved by CMS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week at the OAHQ annual conference I learned that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the first new hospital accreditation organization in more than 30 years. The reason this is important is that Medicare’s accreditation of hospitals is critical to their payment of claims. This annual process can determine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.pqsystems.com&amp;blog=5110862&amp;post=291&amp;subd=pqsystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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