Tag: Cost
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 Continuously Learning Health Care in...
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 Lean Approach to Health...
Podcast #159 – John Toussaint, MD, on the Institute of Medicine...
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A returning guest for episode #159 is John Toussaint, MD, the CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and the author of the...
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 healthcare management reduces cost."
As I think...
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 have, by my count, 124 examples from...
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 new blog: Virginia Mason Blog. They name...
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 look at another provision and say...
Cost Containment is not the Primary Focus of Lean – But...
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
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...
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...
