After gemba at many health systems in the last few months, there is one common theme that is recurring: Lean is considered as the add-on to improvement, not the improvement system itself.
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The Healthcare Value Leaders Network members gathered in Winnpeg yesterday and today to review the great work going on there
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It's official, president Obama has nominated Don Berwick M.D. to head CMS.This is good news for healthcare in the U.S.
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The June 9th and 10th summit in Orlando is shaping up to be a terrific look at how some healthcare organizations are successfully changing their culture to continuous improvement using lean
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Paul Akers in Seattle interviewed John Toussaint regarding using lean to improve clinical and financial performance.
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Dr. Leape was quoted in a recent Modern Healthcare article implying lean methods don't work.The following is what he said.
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Tuesday April 6th, a gathering of more 150 healthcare leaders from across the state took place to begin to craft the future of paying for value in healthcare. See one of the documents that was presented at the summit attached at the end of the blog.
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Once I completed the transformational blog series I realized there is still much more to discuss."Gemba" is an important place and it means "place where value is created". I am going to discuss why going to the Gemba is so important.
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