Tag: Cost

Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”

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I went through our new book  Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book... We have, by my count, 124 examples from...

Virginia Mason’s Improvement Cited in NYT Editorial; Their New Blog

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Virginia Mason Medical Center, a world-renowned leader in the application of Lean principles in healthcare, has a new blog: Virginia Mason Blog. They name...

Protecting Patients *IS* Affordable Care

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Just heard on CNN, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts: "... Congress had a balanced intent. You can't look at another provision and say...

Cost Containment is not the Primary Focus of Lean – But...

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American hospitals are concerned (understatement!) about their future revenues as healthcare reform gets implemented. I heard one senior executive tell his staff, "We are...

Collected Quality & Cost Results from Healthcare Value Network Members

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I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he had gotten a...

Lean Methods to Improve Cardiac Surgery Featured in Annals of Thoracic...

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Hat tip to my friend and fellow Productivity Press author Naida Grunden for pointing out an article she is a co-author on, "Improving Patient...