PHOENIX -- A group of colleges that offer competency-based education programs this week released a draft set of voluntary quality standards for the emerging form of higher education. Competency-based ...

Competency Works, a collaborative initiative led by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, or iNACOL, on Wednesday released an issue brief exploring how to design quality competency ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), the only organization dedicated to healthcare quality professionals, announces its groundbreaking research ...

Healthcare quality is foundational to achieving the overarching goals of every care provider: improving population health, enhancing patient experiences, controlling costs, and more. Yet we are not ...

Georgetown University aligns graduate curriculum to NAHQ’s industry-standard competency framework, qualifies students to sit for the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality® (CPHQ) exam CHICAGO & ...

The American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI®) Program is the performance improvement program delivering quarterly, audiovisual coaching at the point of care to achieve ...

So should the government simply create or use existing common assessments to measure the underlying quality of these programs? In my May piece for CompetencyWorks, Michelle Weise and I wrote about how ...

The term "core competencies" was coined by academic researchers C.K. Prahalad and G. Hamel in an article published in the Harvard Business Review in 1990. Core competencies are the skills and ...

“As competency-based education gains momentum nationwide, there is a growing need for resources that will help interested colleges and universities develop thoughtful plans that lead to quality ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. WASHINGTON -- A surge in new competency-based degree programs has created challenges for the ...

Construction demands precision. One error can cost time, money, or lives. There’s no room for uncertainty on-site. Each task ...

Covid-19 and other challenges of 2020 have carried a sobering mandate: quality can no longer be a “nice-to-have” in healthcare. While there has always been a passion for quality (and with it, safety ...