Unique lineup of thought leaders in Orlando at 4th Annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit

This will be our fourth year co-hosting the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit with the Lean Enterprise Institute to bring together hundreds of healthcare professionals dedicated to care redesign with less waste and fewer errors. Our feedback in the past has confirmed this summit is a perfect way to meet great people, build relationships, and rub shoulders with the industry’s best thinkers and innovators.

Our summit is quite different than others. It is laser focused on three components of the healthcare industry:

• Delivery redesign using lean principles
• Transparency of physician and hospital performance
• Payment redesign to reward value

These components are emerging in experiments around the country to have the most impact on real health reform. When we see all three components being implemented at once, we see the best cost and quality results. This is our definition of one piece flow for health reform. Our approach is to expose the attendees to the most advanced thinking in these key areas by having leaders present what they have learned from doing real work each day. Many of theHealthcare Value Network members will share lessons learned on these topics. Many of the highest performing organizations in North America will be at the summit this year. We all will be learning from world class presenters.

We are very fortunate to have some of the best known speakers in the field at this year’s summit.

• Paul O’Neill of Value Capture, the former CEO of Alcoa who led Alcoa to be the safest company in the world., has a powerful story to tell about the cultural side of transformation and how leaders must act differently if they expect to build an improvement culture.
• Jim Womack is the foremost expert in the world on the study of lean in manufacturing. There are many parallels with healthcare and we will share what he is learning about the leadership and management system required to affect transformational change.
• Francois DeBrantes created Bridges to Excellence, the first redesigned payment system rewarding value creation. He now is building the measurement system CMS will use to change Medicare payments to reward value.
• Featured CEO is Alan Gleghorn of Christie Clinic, along with a panel including Don Shilton of St. Mary’s General Hospital and Alan Aviles of New York City Health and Hospital Corporation.

I will be kicking things off and describing what I am finding around the world after visiting over 120 hospitals in twelve countries. We all have the same problem—the cost is too high and the quality is not reliable. I’ll focus on where we ought to be heading next based on the evidence.

It should be a great two days and don’t forget the workshops the day before. We have a number of faculty back by popular demand, and we believe you will learn a lot. See you in Orlando.

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