Fourth Annual Lean Healthcare Summit a Success
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Healthcare Leaders Learn, Share and Connect on Industry Reforms http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10841178.htm
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Inside the 4th Annual Lean Transformation Summit: Q&A with the Keynote Presenters
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See notes from the Q&A session with keynote presenters John Toussaint, MD, Francois de Brantes, Alan Gleghorn and Jim Womack. To read the document, click here – Keynote Q&A D1
Ten Strategies To Lower Costs, Improve Quality, And Engage Patients: The View From Leading Health System CEOs
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For CEOs of health care organizations, patient-centered care is becoming a business imperative, with payments tied to performance on measures of patient satisfaction and engagement. Eleven executives show that patient-engaged care can be delivered in ways that improve quality and reduce costs. content.healthaffairs.org/gca?allch=&submit=Go&gca=healthaff%3B32%2F2%2F321#abstr-1
Patient Safety
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Patient safety is the focus of this week’s Media Planet To download the article, click here
Lean is Healthy – An article featuring Kathryn Correia’s lean efforts at HealthEast
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Kathryn Correia was named CEO of HealthEast in 2012. She has spent years honing her lean thinking skills preparing for this challenge. The following article outlines her strategy to transform HealthEast to a culture of lean thinking. (Reprinted with permission from Enterprise Minnesota.) Follow this link to download the article, Lean is Healthy
Potent Medicine Receives Shingo Research and Publication Award
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John S. Toussaint, MD, has earned his second prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for his book, Potent Medicine: The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare. The Shingo Prize recognizes a book’s contribution to operational excellence. PM Shingo Award_D2
New articles in Frontiers, Health Affairs highlight “The Promise of Lean in Healthcare”
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Dr. Toussaint discusses the impact of lean on the industry and which strategies CEOs should pursue. To download the article, click here – Combined HA Frontiers Release
The Center announces Founding Members of New Clinical Business Intelligence Network
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A new clinical business intelligence network (CBIN) has formed with the mission to learn, share and connect on the critical process of integrating business intelligence with healthcare enterprise strategy. To download the article, click here – 3.1.13.CBIN Founding Members Release_FINAL
Lean road to better cars, better health care
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In John Torinus’s latest blog, he discusses the impact of lean in manufacturing and how other sectors are utilizing lean practices. John shares how lean is transforming healthcare and can be applied to any process. To download the blog, click here
The Promise of Lean in Healthcare
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An urgent need in American health care is improving quality and efficiency while controlling costs. One promising management approach Lean. The goal of this article is to provide a template for health care leaders to use in considering the implementation of Lean. The Promise of Lean in Healthcare Article
