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Model Practice: Learning from a Shingo Assessment Example
The Shingo Model has been used extensively as the business model of choice for manufacturers because it provides a proven, successful framework to achieve operational excellence. It also is a useful tool for healthcare leaders in gauging progress on their lean journeys and identifying areas for continued improvement.
The ThedaCare Center For Healthcare Value recently sponsored a two-day Shingo Model and Assessor Training session for 40 Center staff and local community partners. The session allowed participants to practice the assessment process in-person with two local organizations.
Read more about our lessons learned and how you can apply them, including key questions to ask your teams!
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Upcoming Educational Offerings
Moving Beyond Budgeting in
Healthcare
Dec. 12, 2013, Dallas, TX
Steve Player, from the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable, teaches participants how to move from current wasteful budgeting and control processes to streamlined forecasting and performance management. Participants begin developing plans that apply the 12 Beyond Budgeting principles. Follow this link for more information.
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LOOKING TO 2014
Leveraging Information Systems in Healthcare
Jan. 28-29, 2014, Phoenix, AZ
Jan. 28, 2014, West Bend, WI *MetaStar: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM.
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New Video on Achieving the Gang Tackle
In this short video, Center CEO John Toussaint, MD, talks about how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way hospital executives manage their businesses. He describes the three core components of healthcare transformation: redesigning care, payment reform and transparency. He also talks about the relevant experiments readers will learn from and how everyone must collaborate in this gang tackle.
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Behind the Scenes at Gemba
Last month, Healthcare Value Network members Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates hosted a joint Gemba visit in Boston with the theme, "Collaborating across organizations using lean to improve the patient care continuum."
Get a glimpse of the key topics, learnings, photos and tweets from the event here! To learn more about joining the network, contact Helen Zak at hzak@createvalue.org or 920-659-7462.
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Welcome our newest Clinical Business Intelligence Network (CBIN) members: MemorialCare and Spectrum Health. We're happy to have you onboard!
Join us for our next FREE webinar - Real World Evidence: The ThedaCare CBI Journey, on Dec. 9, 1 p.m. CST. Register here.
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