HBR Article: Hospitals Are Finally Starting to Put Real-time Data to Use

See what John Toussaint, MD, and Melissa Mannon suggest in their recent article about how to leverage a Clinical Business Intelligence strategy for your data.

 In the past few years, health care organizations in the United States have spent tens of billions of dollars on IT...But many providers are still not leveraging the vast amounts of data that they are collecting to improve the quality of care, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce costs. Indeed, most information available to health care workers and managers is still retrospective...

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Moving Beyond Budgeting in Healthcare DVD

Our latest DVD - Moving Beyond Budgeting in Healthcare: How Finance Can Support Operational Excellence - is available this month! Hear from health system finance leaders and financial expert Steve Player about how to make the shift and why it's so important. The 25-minute DVD includes nine chapters to help you understand the problems with budgeting and the benefits of not doing a budget. 

Lean Leadership Series: Create Your Own Learning Track

"Coaching for Improvement was the most valuable workshop I've ever attended. As an executive healthcare leader, this has caused me to reflect on how I lead and how to develop others. Ultimately, with the goal of driving value for the patient."
- Leah Mitchell, VP Kaizen, Quality and Safety at Salem Health

Coaching for Improvement is just one of the workshops you can select as part of your own customized learning track during our multi-day Lean Leadership series next April in Salem, Oregon.You can register for up to three sessions on a broad range of topics, while spending time with fellow lean leaders.           

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Summit-bound: Save the Date

Registration will open in early 2015 for the 6th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, co-hosted by the Center and the Lean Enterprise Institute. Save the date for Dallas, Texas, June 3-4, 2015.

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