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Centerline: Dec. 15, 2015
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HBR: Radically Redesigning Healthcare with One Unit
John Toussaint, MD, describes five key steps for transforming care by creating a Model Cell for the entire organization in this new Harvard Business Review article. He talks about the value of this inch-wide, mile-deep approach, and how systems can implement it in their own organizations with examples from ThedaCare and Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Becker's Hospital Review also ran a similar article from Dr. Toussaint.
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 What if Everyone in Healthcare Applied the First Five Principles of Lean?
Can you name the first five principles of lean? We'll give you a hint: the first one is Value. In his latest blog post, the Center's Steve Bollinger examines Value and the other four principles as described in Lean Thinking. He talks about our team's pursuit of Lean Bronze Certification, and how healthcare could be better if everyone understood and applied these principles.
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Describing How a Lean Strategy can Dramatically Improve a Company's ROI
Every advocate of lean with a skeptical boss has been asked, "What's the ROI of lean?" at least once. This landmark Planet Lean article by Center board member Orry Fiume explains that lean can indeed help us achieve a superior ROI, so long as we view it as an all-encompassing strategy rather than a simple tactic.
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The Impact of the Healthcare Value Network
Healthcare Value Network members are achieving some amazing outcomes for their patients, employees and the industry as a whole. Check out our infographic below recapping a few of this year's highlights (click any circle to view the full image).
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