Original article posted at ww.ucsf.edu By Laura Kurtzman on July 13, 2016 UC San Francisco will train medical residents and fellows in Lean management principles, as part of a broader institutional commitment to continuous quality improvement. The effort is being supported in part with a grant from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) […]
Originally posted at KPMG. Twice a month, every month, 30 healthcare chief executives descend on a non-descript office block in Appleton, Wisconsin. They are drawn from countries around the world, united by a common desire: to understand how a health system took principles used by a local snow blower and lawn-mower manufacturer and used them […]
John Toussaint, MD, published this article in the NEJM online journal Catalyst describing the lean management system. The article explains how the management system supports front line workers, including physicians, to identify and solve problems every day. This management system is in contrast to an opinion piece in the NEJM in January that described the Toyota Production […]
Appleton, Wis. (June 1, 2016) — The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value recently hired Human Resources Director Peter Mariahazy, who will be responsible for human resources and technology for the Center. “This is a new position for us, and we are so excited to have Peter take the lead,” said Kim Barnas, president of the […]
By: Denis Cortese, John Toussaint, David Krueger, and Robert Smoldt as posted at the Health Affairs Blog. May 24, 2016 The concept of value-based health care is rapidly gaining traction in the U.S., yet implementation remains a significant challenge. For example, the current Medicare “shared savings” payment approach penalizes high-value providers, while rewarding historical inefficiency. Read the full article […]
Appleton, Wis. (May 11, 2016) — Chris Weisbrod, former administrative director of surgical subspecialties at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, has joined the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value as manager of the Healthcare Value Network (HVN), a peer-to-peer learning community of more than 60 healthcare organizations across the US and Canada. He will be responsible […]
In Part II of Mending Management (in the March/April issue of the Physician Leadership Journal), John S. Toussaint, MD, author of Management on the Mend, outlines how human resources, information technology and finance are integral to creating a new operating system that will transform all health care operations. We call the new operating system lean health […]
Book honored for expanding knowledge of executive management leadership Appleton, Wis. (May 4, 2016) — Management on the Mend: The Healthcare Executive Guide to System Transformation, a book published by the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, has earned the esteemed Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. “This book should light a fire with healthcare executives […]
“The current state of healthcare needs a lot of work,” said John Toussaint, MD, Center CEO and CEO emeritus of ThedaCare. “The debate over whether the nation has a sustainable healthcare system is over. Decades of rising costs and poor quality proved it does not.” Read more: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/04/prweb13307757.htm
In a new blog post for Health Affairs, the Center’s John Toussaint, MD, joins CMS’ Patrick Conway, MD, and Center Board Member Stephen Shortell of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, to address claims made in the recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “Medical Taylorism,” that the Toyota Production System and lean healthcare […]
