In May 2014, The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a Report to the President on Better Health Care and Lower Costs: Accelerating Improvements Through Systems Engineering. The report discusses “systems engineering” as the approach to improve healthcare. Two organizations that have embraced lean (or “Toyota Production System”, as it is referred to […]
Lean Principles and Peer-to-Peer Learning Foster Dramatic Results Appleton, Wisconsin (May 15, 2014) — As the healthcare industry continues to pursue transformation, members of the Healthcare Value Network (HVN), a peer-to-peer lean learning community of organizations across the United States and Canada, are leading the charge with innovative change and significant improvements in care quality […]
A new book was just released from the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, Beyond Heroes, A Lean Management System for Healthcare. The Center is committed to helping leaders learn, share and connect around healthcare value. This new book provides the knowledge that healthcare leaders need to develop their own management system so they can create […]
Learn how one of our Network members, Spectrum Health, is putting lean into action in Michigan. Read the press release here.
Read what healthcare leaders think about the reasons behind disparities in healthcare costs and how the issue can be addressed. Full article here.
Dr. Toussaint was in Chicago last week for the American College of Healthcare Executives 2014 Congress. There, he accepted ACHE’s 2014 Dean Conley Award for his article, “A Management, Leadership and Board Road Map to Transforming Care for Patients,” which published in the spring 2013 issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management. Dr. Toussaint took some […]
On Monday, the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill (HR 4302) that would implement a temporary fix for Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula and delay the ICD-10 compliance deadline until 2015, The Hill’s “Floor Action” reports. The House-approved “doc fix” proposal, introduced by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-Pa.), would push back the ICD-10 compliance […]
John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, received the American College of Healthcare Executives’ (ACHE) 2014 Dean Conley Award for his article, “A Management, Leadership and Board Road Map to Transforming Care for Patients,” published in the Spring 2013 issue of Frontiers of Health Services Management…Also this week, the Center was […]
In 2009, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts introduced a payment reform model called the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC). The AQC employs a population-based global budget coupled with significant financial incentives based upon performance on a broad set of quality measures. The twin goals of the AQC are to significantly reduce health care spending growth […]
Authors: Zirui Song, Dana Gelb Safran, Bruce E. Landon, Mary Beth Landrum, Yulei He, Robert E. Mechanic, Matthew P. Day, and Michael E. Chernew Seven provider organizations in Massachusetts entered the Blue Cross Blue Shield Alternative Quality Contract in 2009, followed by four more organizations in 2010. This contract, based on a global budget and pay-for-performance for […]
