Dr. John Toussaint is interviewed via webcast by The Post Crescent regarding healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act, and current experiments in the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality. View Now
Dr. John Toussaint is interviewed via webcast by The Post Crescent regarding healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act, and current experiments in the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality. Read Article
Are you sick and tired of all the talk about BIG DATA in healthcare? Me too. But…that doesn’t mean that it’s not important. Just not now, not yet. There is some serious ground work to be done before big data will be a big deal for the healthcare community. And…if we don’t do this right […]
The Center for Lean Healthcare Research (CLHR) is a formalization of work that has been going on informally for the last two years. Involving healthcare researchers at some of America’s most prestigious academic institutions, the CLHR will focus on scientific study of the lean methodology applied to healthcare. Sharon Schweikhart, associate professor and director of the […]
A lot has been written regarding ThedaCare’s work on redefining patient care from the patient’s perspective. The following article clearly describes just what the inpatient care redesign coined “Collaborative Care” is and isn’t; how lean principles were utilized to create it; and what the results are to date.
Wisconsin is known for cheese, the Green Bay Packers, and beautiful Door County. What you may not know is that it is also home to a leading non-profit healthcare collaboration among providers, insurance companies and leaders in the community, government and business: the Wisconsin Health Information Organization (WHIO). Last week, an article about WHIO was […]
Steph Van Vreede, Operations Manager at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, shares Lean lessons from her garden. *** “What is the big deal about looking for waste? I am getting my job done, hitting deadlines, things are going smoothly.” Ever hear this line of reasoning from staff? As long as customers are not complaining, […]
When safety and healthcare are said in the same sentence, you automatically think of patient safety, right? Patient safety has been a top priority for healthcare professionals and although progress has been made, we still have a ways to go to fill the gap. However, it is acknowledged, measured, tracked and reported publically. I would […]
Behind every successful organization there are principle-based leaders, or individuals who strive for perfection and exhibit the constancy of purpose required to implement meaningful cultural change. According to Steven Spear, organizations that generate more value for the customer with less effort do it by generating and sustaining “broad-based, high-velocity, non-stop improvement and innovation.” And, […]
In January, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value added a team member to start building educational products to help transform healthcare. Steven Bollinger comes to the Center with experience in publishing books and videos designed to share lean knowledge with the manufacturing industry. As part of the introduction to the team, we invited him to […]
