CENTERLINE
                                                            August 2013
In This Issue
Lights, Camera, Lean!
Upcoming Educational Offerings
Center News Briefs
Latest from the
Center Blog

  

Paying the Right Way for the Best Care for Patients with Diabetes: Why and How

 

ThedaCare Bellin Pioneer ACO Reduces Total Cost of Care by 4.6%

Payment Experiment Forum

A New Vision for California's Healthcare System:  Integrated Care with Aligned Financial Incentives 

 

Puget Sound Health Alliance Discusses New Multi-Payer Pilot   

 

BooksPut Some 'Shingo' on Your Shelf

Add Potent Medicine and On the Mend  with our two-book package. Click here for details. 

   

Join a community of peers who are pursuing value-based healthcare.

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greetings!  

 

This summer, ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value is celebrating its five-year anniversary! Thank you for your support and engagement along this journey. We've accomplished a lot since our early days:

  • Membership in the Healthcare Value Network has grown from 14 to more than 60 organizations.
  • We've added a second peer-to-peer learning network focused on clinical business intelligence.
  • We've published two award-winning books.
  • Our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit sets the standard for industry conferences on value-based care.
  • Thousands of visitors have participated in our CEO Site Visits or other on-site learning experiences, including leaders from 22 countries.
  • Since 2011, we've developed 15 educational experiences, including site visits. 

To kick off our next five years, we're increasing our focus on teachable materials and rolling out a new YouTube channel. Enjoy the last month of summer perusing our videos!


To learn more about the Center, our work and our programs, please go to createvalue.org. If you find our updates valuable and think a colleague would too, feel free to share.
Lights, Camera, Lean! 
  
The Center is excited to unveil its new YouTube channel under the name ThedaCareCenter. The channel will host brief video lessons, presentations from our expert team, and clips from network members or other healthcare leaders.

 

Tish's Story: Those of you who attended this year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit know the powerful, personal keynote address shared by Center CEO John Toussaint, MD. If you haven't yet heard the story, watch it by clicking the image below. And, if you've already seen it, consider sharing with a friend.
Tish's Story, as told by John Toussaint, MD
Tish's Story, as told by Dr. Toussaint.

    

Upcoming Educational Offerings 

Creating a Lean Management System

NOW WITH CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Learn how ThedaCare addressed the challenge of sustaining improvement work and developing a culture of problem solvers with the Business Performance System, a lean management approach that facilitates the development of staff at the frontline and the alignment of work toward True North. To register for our next session on Sept. 5-6, click here.

 

Lean Fundamentals for Healthcare Leaders

NOW WITH GEMBA - Oct. 3-4, 2013

Enhance the power of your lean journey by ensuring all your organization's leaders have the knowledge and skills necessary to lead improvement work and coach and teach their staff in the course of their daily work. See for yourself how teams huddle to advance problem solving and how they celebrate improvement events. For more information, click here.

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 FOR CEOs AND THE SENIOR TEAM

 

Accelerate the Journey to Enduring Excellence

This three-session seminar for the CEO and 1-2 senior leaders enables you to take years off the journey to world-class business performance by facilitating the development of a proven leadership framework for your organization. Participants have a chance to work directly with faculty Paul O'Neill, John Toussaint, MD, Rick Shannon, MD, and the Center and Value Capture teams. Listen to what past participants have to say here.

 

SiteVisitsCEO Site Visits

At ThedaCare, Christie Clinic or St. Boniface Hospital

These gemba visits provide the opportunity for management teams to see examples of lean thinking in action in the healthcare setting. Led by senior leaders at each organization, participants can learn from their personal journeys, as well as from their peers participating in the session. For more information, follow this link 

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FOR CIOs AND IT LEADERSHIP TEAMS

 

Leveraging Information Systems in Healthcare

Learn how to apply lean principles to dramatically enhance how your department supports operational leaders in their quest to provide higher value to patients. Click here to listen to Mike Orzen, faculty for this workshop and co-author of Lean IT, as he explains how this workshop will support you in your efforts to reduce waste and improve service quality in your department. For more information and to register for Leveraging Information Systems in Healthcare on Sept. 24-25, in Appleton, WI, click here.

 

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COMING SOON!  The Science of Problem Solving for Physicians  

News Briefs

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Members Making a Difference  

This month, we feature two members of the Healthcare Value Network who are making a difference and making great progress on their lean journeys. The Carolinas Lean Collaborative is a relatively new member to the network and consists of three rurally situated healthcare systems in NC. Gundersen Health System in LaCrosse, WI, is targeting energy independence by 2014 and recently received national notoriety. Details about these two Network organizations can be found here.

 

CBINHave You Enrolled in CBIN Yet?

The Clinical Business Intelligence Network Cohort #2 is currently open for enrollment. We are seeking eight more leading healthcare organizations to enroll by Aug. 31. Are you one of them? Contact Julie Bartels at [email protected] or (920) 309-2216.    

 

Free Webinar Answers Your CBI Questions

  • Do you know how well your organization performed yesterday?
  • Are your frontline staff able to access the information they need to make wise decisions--every patient, every time?
  • What are the profile characteristics of patients most likely to be readmitted to your hospitals?
  • Are there any patients in your hospital today who match this profile?
  • If you had this level of information quality and flow, would your organization be stronger and better able to consistently deliver high value care to your patients? 

 

You're not alone in wondering. Join us for a free webinar on Thurs., Aug. 22, at 2 p.m. CST with Clinical Business Intelligence Network (CBIN) members Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Bellin Health to hear about the challenges and benefits of building a CBI program. A CBI strategy will accelerate and improve the impact of your Operational Excellence program. To register, click here.

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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