Thought pieces
Democratising quality improvement within organisations
Every week – or so it seems – we hear of yet another problem in the realm of quality assurance and quality improvement. Whether it’s business
July 15, 2018
Every week – or so it seems – we hear of yet another problem in the realm of quality assurance and quality improvement. Whether it’s business
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care have recently published a second edition of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.
MEERQAT has various ways to sort and filter assessment, basemap and user tables, including sorting by name, email, creation date and state, and filtering by name, tags and archive status. Now, with the new grouping feature you
In addition to MEERQAT’s six standard nodes (input, process, outcome, output, objective and non-rateable), you can now specify your own custom node types when building new
I have just returned from the ACHSM/ACHS Joint Congress 2017 in Sydney, where the theme of the conference was “Winds of Change”. A common sub-theme in
MEERQAT Directors Phil Cohen, Donna Cohen and Vitas Anderson recently attended the joint congress of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) and the Australian
We’re pleased to announce that MEERQAT Pty Ltd is working with the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Program Evaluation, to provide free MEERQAT accounts to students
MEERQAT Directors Phil Cohen, Donna Cohen and Vitas Anderson were all in attendance for the Australasian Evaluation Society’s annual International Conference, held this year in Canberra
In its simplest form, reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one’s actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning. For decades,
Last year, quality in acute hospitals was in the news with the release of the Duckett report (Targeting zero: Supporting the Victorian hospital system to eliminate
We’re excited to announce that MEERQAT Director Donna Cohen will be delivering podium presentations at two conferences in September 2017. Following on from our successful attendance
We are pleased to announce some handy new features in the MEERQAT application. In the Basemap Builder, there is now a separate node type for “Outputs”,
It’s the start of a new year and once again we exhort ourselves to do something – or many things – better than we did last
A new basemap for reviewing change processes has been added to the MEERQAT basemap library. The Change Management basemap is a 14-node process map that shows
In recent months, we have seen numerous examples of human service systems that have failed – sometimes catastrophically and with deadly consequences. With all the emphasis
