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, […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/guest-blog-what-is-the-big-deal-about-identifying-waste/
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 […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/the-most-dangerous-industry-in-america/
Today, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article by John Toussaint, M.D. and Donald Berwick, M.D. which describes several important changes that must happen legislatively and from a policy standpoint to lower cost and improve quality for Medicare beneficiaries. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed for fee-for-service Medicare data to be […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/jama-publishes-toussaint-berwick-commentary/
WHIO was created in 2006 to improve the cost and quality of care delivered in Wisconsin. A recent report from AHRQ shows Wisconsin to be second for low cost and high quality in the nation narrowly eclipsed by Minnesota (see attached graph –State comparison). Because providers have complete access to the entire WHIO data set […]
The California Physicians Group shares insights on how they improved existing payment methodologies in a primary care environment. Organization Overview: The California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) is the nation’s largest trade association representing physician organizations practicing in the delivery of accountable, clinically integrated health services. CAPG’s member groups employ and/or contract with physicians who […]
https://createvalue.org/pef/revitalizing-primary-care-with-new-payment-approach/
This article is more evidence that public reporting of physician reporting improves performance. The study design compared other upper midwest healthcare providers with Wisconsin providers that reported data to the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ). The results indicate that the WCHQ members improved performance faster and farther than the organizations that are not publicly […]
Health Partners is a fully integrated health system which includes a 1.2 million member health plan, a large multi-specialty physician group and several hospitals. For the last two years they have been measuring physician group performance in what they call “taking the triple aim to the next level.” Health Partners leaders have developed a model […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/health-partners-total-cost-of-care-model/
Professor Len Berry from Texas A and M spent the entire fall semester of 2011 embedding himself in three Wisconsin healthcare delivery organizations: Gundersen Lutheran, ThedaCare and Bellin. A few years prior to that he had embedded himself in the Mayo Clinic. On Tuesday, he facilitated a panel discussion with the 4 CEOs from these […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/wisconsin-healthcare-leaders-featured-at-ihi/
The Ministry of Health in Saskatchewan has had a big vision for years: To make an entire provincial healthcare system produce 100% reliable results for citizens. Leaders carefully evaluated the approaches to achieving this goal and decided the lean operating system was the way to make it actually happen. They have been on the journey […]
https://createvalue.org/blog/saskatchewan-health-involves-42000-staff-in-planning/
