What is Your Health System Doing to Reduce Costs? Process Improvement or Layoffs?
While Lean is not primarily a cost-cutting methodology (or, we could say it's not focused ONLY on costs), cost…
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Waste in Healthcare – Flushing Money Down the Toilet
As a reminder, I am giving a free Gemba Academy webinar tomorrow (Tuesday 3/12) on "Stories about the Eight Types…
The IOM Asks “What’s Possible in Healthcare?”
Last year, the Institute of Medicine released its latest report titled, "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to…
Dr. Gary Kaplan’s Piece on Lean for the Institute of Medicine
Here is a commentary that was written by Gary S. Kaplan, MD, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center:
"The…
Podcast #159 – John Toussaint, MD on the Recent IOM Report
A returning guest for episode #159 is John Toussaint, MD, the CEO of the ThedaCare Center for…
Quoted in: 7 Ways Lean Healthcare Management Reduces Cost
Thanks to Healthcare Finance News for interviewing me for this piece they ran this week: "7 ways lean…
Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”
I went through our new book Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book...
We…
Virginia Mason’s Improvement Cited in NYT Editorial; Their New Blog
Virginia Mason Medical Center, a world-renowned leader in the application of Lean principles in healthcare, has a…
Protecting Patients *IS* Affordable Care
Just heard on CNN, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts:
"... Congress had a balanced intent. You can't…
Cost Containment is not the Primary Focus of Lean – But Costs Go Down
American hospitals are concerned (understatement!) about their future revenues as healthcare reform gets…
Collected Quality & Cost Results from Healthcare Value Network Members
I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he…
Lean Methods to Improve Cardiac Surgery Featured in Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Hat tip to my friend and fellow Productivity Press author Naida Grunden for pointing out an article she is a…