CENTERLINE
                                                            December 2012
In This Issue
Feature: New Book Offerings from the Center
Events & Education
Center News Briefs
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The 4th Annual Lean Summit will be held on June 5-6 in Orlando, FL.

 

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Payment Pilot: Healthcare Quality Coalition 

 

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New Book Offerings from the Center 

The Center is expanding its book offerings to give customers a deeper background on lean in healthcare. You can now purchase these two new titles from our online library at createvalue.org: 

  • Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements by Mark Graban and Joseph E. Swartz  
  • Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Second Edition by Mark Graban 

Lean Hospitals explains how to use the Lean Management system to improve safety, quality, access and morale while reducing costs. The book outlines the challenges facing today's health systems, including rising costs, falling reimbursement rates, employee retention and patient safety.

 

The updated edition features a new introduction by Center CEO John Toussaint, MD. It also includes new and updated material on identifying waste, case studies, and examples and data throughout. The book examines the steps for a successful transition to a lean culture and provides the understanding of lean principles needed to reduce common hospital errors.

 

Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement for healthcare professionals and organizations. It outlines methods used by numerous hospitals around the world, and discusses the mindsets and philosophies needed to make Kaizen work effectively.

 

Want to follow the lead of ThedaCare and others who have moved beyond week-long improvement events to a more complete management system based on lean principles? This book is for you.  

 

To learn more about these books or to purchase click here. 


Upcoming Events & Education

Workshops coming up in 2013!

 

Lean Fundamentals for Healthcare Leaders
Gain a deeper understanding of the concepts behind the tools and methods of lean in order to support your organization's transition to daily problem solving, and coaching and mentoring in the work.

 

Interested in this workshop? Click here for more information.  

 

Leveraging Information Systems in Healthcare
IT leaders in healthcare organizations can build lean capabilities and enable organizations to move from isolated silos of care to integrated processes focused on patient value. Learning objectives include understanding core work systems that drive continuous improvement and how to optimize work processes in IT and the enterprise.

 

To learn more about this workshop, click here. 

 

Lean Management System
For healthcare executives searching for a system to take them beyond event-based improvement to unleash the power of daily improvement aligned with organizational goals, this workshop is it! This system has helped ThedaCare sustain the gains of improvement work, align and focus resources on value for the patient, develop staff, and meet and exceed true north metrics.

 

Click here more more information. 

 

Christie Clinic  

The Center is partnering with Healthcare Value Network member Christie Clinic to offer an executive level CEO Site Visit in January that will be hosted by Christie's CEO, Alan Gleghorn. Attendees will see firsthand how to transform a culture into a community of problem solvers and will be exposed to the forums used by Christie Clinic to build excitement among team members and physicians for the improvement of patient care.

 

To learn more, click here.

News Briefs

Business Intelligence Summit

What could your organization accomplish if the right information was in the right hands at the right time on a daily basis? We asked a group of 36 select healthcare leaders this at the Center's inaugural Clinical Business Intelligence (CBI) Summit.

 

The summit brought together executive vice-presidents, system directors, research analysts and other healthcare leaders to discover the challenges faced by data and reporting systems together. Attendees had the unique opportunity to learn from their peers about ways they are addressing critical business analytics needs and leveraging information to achieve higher value healthcare delivery.

 

Our conversations confirmed more than ever that information is an asset and that business intelligence is valuable when deployed through strategic planning. This is just the first of many steps in our journey of continuing a collaborative approach.

The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value is transforming the healthcare industry to deliver higher value through experiments, collaboration and education that integrate three interdependent components: delivery, transparency and payment. In these areas, the Center spreads learning and accelerates improvement.

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