Attend a 2017 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit Immerse yourself in the Lean Healthcare Transformation community. Get inspired and discover the strategies you need to transform your healthcare organization. The annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summits exist for you – no matter where you are in your transformation journey. Learn from healthcare leaders from around the world as they […]
Your newsletter from Catalysis is here! Start 2017 with a Catalysis Webinar (or Two) Beyond Heroes: Lessons from The Field – Jan. 12, 11 a.m. CT Sharing lean management principles and methodologies across an entire hospital can be both daunting and highly rewarding. Please join us on for this webinar and discover what Beyond Heroes […]
Lean Healthcare in Tanzania: Meeting demand for high quality, affordable eye care Summary In a country of 47.5 million people, it is estimated that 3.5 million Tanzanians live with a disability. There are lasting, severe consequences to delayed treatment of physical impairments, including malnutrition for people with cleft lip/palate, painful mobility for […]
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From Harvard Business Review “Improve the Affordable Care Act, Don’t Repeal It.” This recent Harvard Business Review article written by Catalysis CEO John Toussaint provides insight into the parts of the ACA that work and what needs to be changed. Click below to read the full story.Improve the ACA, Don’t Repeal It European Healthcare Summit […]
From Harvard Business Review by Ted Toussaint, Karen DaSilva, John S. Toussaint December 13, 2016 Republican control of the White House and Congress won’t change the U.S. health care’s movement away from the traditional fee-for-service system to one that is based on value, paying providers on the basis of the quality of outcomes achieved for the money […]
From Planet Lean comes a case study on how an improvement program of the British national healthcare system inspired a Belgian hospital to launch an organization-wide lean transformation with the active support of the HR and nursing departments. Read the full case study here.
Originally posted at Waterloo Region Record By Johanna Weidner WATERLOO REGION — St. Mary’s General Hospital ranked first in Canada in a comparison of patient survival rates. Grand River Hospital also ranked in the Top 10, and Cambridge Memorial Hospital came in under the provincial average after being well above last year. “Patients can be […]
A new scientific research article from the Journal of Hospital Administration is now available. “Breadth vs. depth: How to start deploying the daily management system for your lean transformation,” written by Dala Taher, Sylvain Landry, and Dr. John Toussaint. Download the article here.
Dr. Toussaint, in this Harvard Business Review article, outlines the important features of the Affordable Care Act and what should be kept. He discusses the root cause of the cost problem in American healthcare and options to deal with it. Finally, there is a call to action to redesign care around the patient, change the […]
