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News Briefs
The Healthcare Value Network Welcomes Four New Members
This brings the total number of Network member organizations in the United States and Canada to 57. One advantage of membership is participation in Gemba visits. We have nine upcoming Gembas in the next 12 months.
To learn more about the Network, the requirements, the application process and the activities, contact the Network team.
Transparency Experiments
The Center recently kicked off two transparency experiments involving Healthcare Value Network organizations. It is our first opportunity to build comparative performance data dashboards that benchmark and support work improvement. Using data from the U.S. and Canada, we can examine performance measurement in private fee-for-service vs. national healthcare environments.
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Experiment #1: Participants voluntarily share patient-safety metrics in a comparative dashboard to identify best practices among lean organizations and accelerate their own lean journey. At first, this dashboard will be limited to those participating but will eventually be publicly reported to support value-based decisions by consumers.
Watch for results updates in future issues of Centerline!
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Recap: PHPR Summit  More than 150 leaders gathered in Wisconsin recently for a summit hosted by the Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform (PHPR), a strategic partner of the Center.
The one-day conference refreshed enthusiasm for taking on the challenges of payment reform.
Keynote Valinda Rutledge, director of the Patient Care Model Group for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), explained bundled payments and how they can simplify healthcare for patients and purchasers.
Speakers also discussed topics related to provider and payer experiments going on across the state of Wisconsin, including:
- Payment Reform: The Medicaid Perspective
- PHPR Pilots: Accelerators and Key Learnings
- From Episodes to Bundles: Two Sides of a Risk Coin
- Integrated Payment Reform, Delivery System Redesign and Transparency
- Medicare Payment Reform: CMS/CMMI Pilots
Participants shared positive comments about the summit's takeaways and networking opportunities. "I left energized and enlightened," said Helen Zak, president and COO of the Center. "It certainly left me wanting to shine light on these experiments and others like them."
Access presentation slides and a summit recap on the Center's new Payment Experiment Forum. |
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Upcoming Events & Education
The success of a lean transformation depends on commitment from the
leadership team. That comes from a deep understanding of lean principles and cultural changes. The Center supports your leadership team with customized education on topics such as A3 thinking, strategy deployment, lean leadership behaviors, and lean management systems.
Lean Management Workshop
Have you been on your lean journey more than a year? Learn how ThedaCare leaders sustain gains from process improvement, coach teams real time, solve problems daily, minimize fire-fighting, and deliver results.
For details and registration, click here.
Christie Clinic CEO Visit
At Christie Clinic, an HVN member, see firsthand a revolutionary approach to accelerate your cultural transformation, engage staff and physicians, obtain results through staff engagement in problem solving, and develop systems that result in behaviors aligned with Shingo Principles.
For details and registration, click here.
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