The idea sounds simple enough: Have a company host an onsite flu shot clinic for workers and reap the benefits when the flu season hits and your employees are protected and your company’s productivity doesn’t suffer. An onsite flu clinic is just one of several successful initiatives that have helped Miller Electric Mfg. Co. in […]
Carol Inc. is a company led by executives who have heavily influenced the consumer directed healthcare market. CEO Tony Miller formerly was the leader of Definity, which was the first consumer directed health plan product company founded in Minneapolis in 1997. This company started the market moving in the direction of more employee decision-making and […]
Learn about the specifics of the Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS), how leaders have adopted lean principles for healthcare delivery and what they’re realizing as results. case-study-virginia-mason
Since February 2007, ThedaCare has used its propriety care model — Collaborative Care — to change the way inpatient hospital care is delivered to patients. Collaborative Care has not only improved care and lowered costs; it has also led to higher satisfaction rates among patients and staff members. Hospitals have provided care the same way […]
Ford Brewer, the medical director for Toyota North American Health Care, describes what he needed to do to fund the development of the new Toyota Medical Clinic in San Antonio. “Since this expenditure was close to $9 million, I had to travel to Japan to justify it.” Toyota’s senior executives were not enamored with spending […]
A radically different management system is required to deliver and sustain improvement Sustainable improvement results require moving away from a project mentality for improvement to a system transformation which builds a continuous improvement culture. Most every organization can improve something if it focuses enough resources on it. On the other hand, developing a management process […]
ThedaCare’s Collaborative Care Units Missing from most healthcare organizations is a well defined methodology that the entire organization can utilize to solve problems, continuously improve processes and sustain results. In 2003 ThedaCare embarked on the journey to deeply understanding the principles and practices of the Toyota Production system otherwise known as lean. After several years […]
The problem we are trying to solve with payment reform is that our present payment design rewards volume and subspecialty intervention. What does “volume” mean? This is the case of more procedures, hospitalizations and office visits leading to more revenue with no consideration as to whether these interventions were necessary or not. The same is […]
With support from The Commonwealth Fund, researchers evaluated how publicly reporting healthcare performance information through Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) has impacted the quality of ambulatory care in Wisconsin. Transparency_Website_WCHQ_Commonwealth_study_052011
The pressure for rapid and effective change in health care delivery in the United States has continued to intensify as health care costs continue to rise. Communities have responded with a broad set of initiatives designed to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care. Markle_Brookings_FinalCrossPayerReport
