7 Ways Lean Principles Can Help Manage Population Health
Posted on by John Toussaint
It's an opportune moment for health leaders to focus on 'Lean' at a communitywide level, says John Toussaint, M.D., CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
March 9, 2016
Lean principles and processes have become important tools for transforming health care delivery, transparency and cost. Yet, while more and more success stories are emerging on the system side, there’s an opportunity for "Lean" in managing population health.
Population health — whether it’s caring for a specific patient population by condition or addressing social determinants of health at a societal level — is a large-scale effort to affect the health of an entire group of people. So how, specifically, can the principles of Lean help accomplish this effort?
