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 […]
Experiences of and Lessons Learned by the Healthcare Value Network’s “Acceleration & Assessment Team” Abstract: It is uncommon to find a healthcare organization’s management that will state that they are following Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s management philosophy. It is more common to find organizations that are pursuing the application of what is being called “lean”. Starting in […]
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 […]
A Wisconsin ACO formed by two health systems, Bellin Health and ThedaCare, had the most success in keeping its diabetes patients’ blood sugar levels below the target set by Medicare, the data show. Eighty-four percent of that ACO’s patients hit that target, much better than the average ACO rate of 65 percent. Just 24 percent of patients with the Accountable Care Coalition […]
This coming April, pioneers from all over Europe, Canada and the United States will convene in Brussels to learn, share and connect on how to transform healthcare. Click here for more information. Preliminary agenda.
MemorialCare in Fountain Valley, CA and Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, CO are the newest members of the Clinical Business Intelligence Network. Read about the network’s groundbreaking work – 20131101 MemorialCare-Boulder Release_FINAL-Web
Consumer Reports identified Sutter Gould Medical Foundation as being ranked #1, of 170 medical groups, for overall care by California customers. For over 50 years Sutter Gould physicians provide both primary and specialty care outpatient services for residents in Modesto, Stockton and six other communities in the Central Valley region. Sutter Gould has been a […]
This multimedia presentation shows how leaders from five California public hospital systems traveled the country to learn how to apply the Lean management model to improve patient care. To view the presentation, click here – http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/12/getting-lean
Can snow throwers improve health quality? They did at ThedaCare. To download the article that Len Berry and I wrote, click here – Trustee Magazine.Leadership Lessons from Lean.2013
Helen Zak, President of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, discusses key takeaways from the PHPR Summit. Read more to learn about payment experiments happening at healthcare organizations in the state of Wisconsin. Last month, I participated in the first annual PHBR Summit, along with more than 150 other leaders in Milwaukee. We spent the day sharing […]
