Lean: A Comprehensive Approach To The Transformation Our Health Care System Needs

By Patricia Gabow and Patrick H. Conway

August 13, 2015

Many approaches to improving value in our health system focus on specific issues involving care delivery models such as optimizing primary care, coordinating care transitions, facilitating the care of the high need/high use patients, or reducing unnecessary readmissions. While improvement in specific areas will yield benefits for certain patients and populations, broad, all-encompassing improvements in quality and cost across the health care continuum will require more fundamental and comprehensive system transformation. ~Continue reading at Health Affairs...