Tag: ThedaCare

I'm really looking forward to next week's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Minneapolis. Who else is going? I'll be blogging about it Wednesday through...

Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest related to Lean, systems, and improvement. The "good news"...

Episode #146 is a discussion with a returning guest (#54, #62, #72), John Toussaint, MD, the CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value....

In a recurring feature, here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest: Luxury car program brings cancer patients...

Episode #144 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare, talking about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and how ThedaCare is using this approach, along with Lean methods, to improve the coordination of care for patients.

Under Blog Break rules, I'll just post this article that I was quoted extensively in: "Author: Hospitals can use lean techniques to drive improvements...

For the third year, my good friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and the Healthcare Value Network are...

March 4 to 10 has been "Patient Safety Awareness Week" from the National Patient Safety Foundation. I'm certainly in favor of patient safety and have...

If you're a gambler and you take my post title literally, you might be thinking, "The odds? The odds are 1 in 7000, or...

Congratulations to Dr. John Toussaint and Roger Gerard, co-authors of the outstanding book,  On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the...

Last Thursday's Journal had a story titled "How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines." The article talks about senior...

In the Lean movement, organizations are often wise to have some variation on a "no layoffs due to Lean" policy, as I've written about...