This space includes periodic entries by the Center founder John Toussaint, MD. You are encouraged to post your reactions to these entries and engage in thoughtful discussion surrounding health care innovations. All comments will be pre-approved by the Center prior to appearing on this blog.
Kathryn Correia will be one of four lean leaders in a leadership event taking place at the University of Pennslylvania Hospitals.
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This is the 6th blog in my series on organizational transformation. We have organized these blogs into three categories based on the important components of Purpose, Process, and People. We are still exploring the category of process and this week are focused on kaizen.
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The TV cameras captured the Acute Heart Attack Value Stream designed by ThedaCare doctors and nurses.
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In blog 4 we covered Hoshin Kanri otherwise known as strategy deployment which is an important senior management tool in the lean methodology of continuous improvement. In addition we defined what an A3 was and how it is used to cascade strategy and create dialogue throughout an entire organization
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In the end after the T.V. cameras had been turned off have we gotten any closer to real healthcare reform with President Obama's health care summit?
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This peer reviewed article was published by the Indiana University Business school in "Business Horizons".
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The following article by the Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda outlines the renewed focus Toyota has on quality. It's called "Back to Basics for Toyota" and was published in the Wall Street Journal opinion section today.
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The 4th entry in this blog series on whole system organizational transformation is under the rubric of Process and is the Methodology for continuous improvement.This is the Toyota Production System applied to healthcare.
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The 3rd entry in this series on organizational transformation using lean comes again,under the rubric of Process:Transparency is one of the keys to improvement but there are critical core characteristics of implementation that can make or break success.
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I just returned from a two week visit to many cities in China. The visit confirms that the U.S.has a new and powerful competitor that has 1.3 billion people focused on economic success.
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