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Upcoming Educational Opportunities
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Leveraging Information Systems in Healthcare
April 23-24, 2013
Do operational departments in your organization find themselves competing for IT resources to support improvement work?
This two-day workshop teaches you how to obtain more streamlined support from your IT department to improve the quality of patient care and drive IT transformation through lean principles. Register here!
Lean Fundamentals for Healthcare Leaders - May 16-17, 2013
Do you have a need to level-set your understanding of core lean healthcare principles and practices to better coach and mentor your teams?
This workshop allows operational leaders to gain a deeper understanding of the foundational components of a lean transformation, including key principles, systems and tools. Register here! |
Join a community of peers who are pursuing value-based healthcare.
  
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Greetings!
Changing how healthcare operates continues to be top of mind for leaders around the country. It's too complex, costly, and doesn't deliver the right value to patients.
Transformative change is hard work. It requires new behaviors from everyone in the organization and throughout the industry. One of the biggest challenges is gaining momentum - convincing peers, bosses, subordinates and business partners to try something new by asking our patients what is valuable to them. It's a process of awareness and discovery to find out what good can look like and what is possible.
The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value's role in this transformation is to provide learning experiences, resources and educational opportunities to help you and your organization experiment and transform. Here's what we've been working on to help your transformation:
- We've published several recent articles in popular journals that can help you make the case.
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We just announced the founding members of CBIN, a peer-to-peer network to address clinical business intelligence skills and capacity in healthcare. - We are hosting a Payment Reform Summit, which will bring a group together to share payment experiments taking place around the country and discuss the successes and obstacles each organization has experienced.
- We have new educational opportunities that will take your organization deeper in your lean journey.
- Registration is now open for the 4th Annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. We'll highlight experiments from more than 20 organizations at different stages of their transformational journeys. Registration is limited - reserve your spot today and continue our industry's transformation!
To learn more about the Center, our efforts and our programs, please go to createvalue.org. Watch for the April edition of Centerline for more ways to create and accelerate change in your organization and in the healthcare industry. If you find our updates valuable and think a colleague would too, please feel free to share. |
 Announcing Summit Keynotes Learn from healthcare experts who are exploring innovative experiments to transform care delivery and payment systems. This year's 4th Annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit is presented by the Center and the Lean Enterprise Institute. The summit will include keynote presentations by: - John Toussaint, MD, CEO emeritus of ThedaCare and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
- Francois de Brantes, executive director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Inc.
- Paul O'Neill, 72nd Secretary of the US Treasury and founder of Value Capture, LLC.
- Alan Gleghorn, CEO of Christie Clinic
- Jim Womack, founder and senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.
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 New Pilot Workshops for AnalyticsYou're invited to attend the pilot session for two new workshops: Developing an Analytics Team on May 14 and Increasing the Capacity of the Analytics Team on May 15. Both workshops will be held at the Center in Appleton, WI and will be taught by Brain Veara, information technology director at ThedaCare. Sessions will feature a combination of classroom learning, exercises, discussion and reflection. By attending both workshops, participants will learn how to build effective analytics teams and to identify and remove waste from reporting processes to improve clinical and business performance. These sessions will be offered at an introductory price of only $400 per person. |
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News Briefs
Own the Gap - Latest Addition to the Center's Library
 The Center is excited to offer 2013 Shingo prize winner Own the Gap, by Mike Martyn and Bryan Crowell.
The book focuses on the conventional myths of leading a lean transformation and gives practical advice for implementing lean thinking in both healthcare and manufacturing.
Written and researched over the last year, the book outlines step-by-step instructions to:
- Create an effective strategy deployment process
- Build a visual management system
- Develop a daily kaizen schedule
- Define the role of leaders in creating, improving and sustaining these systems
Click here to order your copy today!
CBIN Founding Members Announced
The Center is pleased to announce the founding members of its newly-formed Clinical Business Intelligence Network (CBIN).
The peer-to-peer network brings together healthcare information leaders with leaders in business intelligence and IT to learn, share and connect with one another.
The founding members of CBIN are:
- Bellin Health Care Systems: Green Bay, WI
- Bon Secours Virginia Health System: Richmond, VA
- City of Hope: Duarte, CA
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford: Palo Alto, CA
- Martin Health System: Stuart, FL
- North Bay Regional Health Centre: North Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Oregon Health and Science University: Portland, OR
- ProHealth Care: Waukesha, WI
- Salem Health: Salem, OR
- Southern Illinois Healthcare: Southern IL
- St. Mary's General Hospital: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- ThedaCare: Appleton, WI
The pioneer members will meet for the first time in March 2013.
To learn more about CBIN, contact Julie Bartels at 920.309.2216.
New Article in Frontiers by Center CEO John Toussaint
Center CEO John Toussaint, MD, authored A Management, Leadership and Board Roadmap to Transforming Care of Patients in the latest Frontiers of Health Services Management, a publication of the American College of Healthcare Executives.Payment Reform Summit
Across the country, leading healthcare providers are making care safer and eliminating waste, and losing revenue as a result. We think it is time for this to change. Transformation of payment systems, both government and commercial, must keep pace with and support delivery system transformation, while not penalizing providers for doing the right thing. We are convening a small and innovative group in Appleton, WI on Apr. 29-30 to share progressive payment experiments going on around the country and discuss the successes and obstacles to date. If you know of a health system doing great work in this area who would like to participate, contact Karen Timberlake.
Welcome New Members of the Healthcare Value Network
 Please join us in welcoming the newest members of our Healthcare Value Network as they unite with healthcare leaders from our 60 organizations committed to providing high-quality, cost-effective care through the application of lean concepts:
- Carolinas Lean Collaborative, comprised of Caldwell Memorial, Columbus Regional Healthcare System and Sampson Regional Medical Center: North Carolina
- John C. Lincoln Health Network: Phoenix, AZ
- Mercy Health System: Chesterfield, MO
- Presbyterian Healthcare Services: Albuquerque, NM
- University of New Mexico Hospitals: Albuquerque, NM
Learn more about the Healthcare Value Network's mission to fundamentally improve healthcare delivery through lean thinking by reading our new white paper, Power of Peer-to-Peer.
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