What if Healthcare Could Become Lean?
I spend a lot of time dreaming about what a wonderful thing it would be if more and more healthcare could “become Lean”. The wisdom of Lean as a philosophy, an operating system and a corporate culture or “corporate way of being” appeals to me because of its universal...
Creating the Future of Healthcare
Walter Isaacson’s latest book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, led me to think about how we are creating the future of healthcare. Although the book is about how the computer revolution and the internet came...
ACO Leaders Need Focus, Commitment
ACO leaders are going to need to acquire a new set of competencies. Recently I attended a conference in Boston on access, innovation and Accountable Care Organizations. I was scheduled to be on a panel at the end of the day talking about ACOs with a physician from...
National Drug Facts Week
National Drug Facts week is this week from January 26, 2015 through February 1, 2015. You can get links to all of the information at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In addition, there is a direct link to their 1 Page Fact Sheet that answers the questions:...
Lean Leaders, Emergence & Healthcare
In a very interesting TED talk entitled “Where Do Good Ideas Come From,” Steven Johnson gives example after example of how individual moments of epiphany are more likely to be the product of group discussion and process than the sudden “eureka” moment of an isolated...
Lean: Look Back, Look Forward
This time of the year is terrific for what we call “Hansei” or deep reflection in Lean. One of my greatest sources of continuing satisfaction for 2014 was my work with others to spread Lean thinking. Most of my work with Lean was done with Simpler, in concert with Dr....
Dr. Gene Lindsey Counters 60 Minutes Report Card on Obamacare
The other night I watched 60 Minutes and heard Steven Brill and Leslie Stahl report on how Obamacare is doing at this point. There was an air of naiveté and associated helplessness or a sense of victimization by “systemic evil” that was at the core of this segment,...
What Healthcare Consumers Want
The Advisory Board recently published a study done with 4000 healthcare consumers, asking them what they want from primary care. The study ranks 56 dimensions of healthcare opinion, and can be accessed as a PDF here: http://www.advisory.com I will summarize for you...
Box 9: Discerning Healthcare’s Future
Is there much more to ponder than the past, the present and the future? I find it ironic that as a healthcare executive I gained a small reputation as a person who was always thinking about tomorrow, when in fact in an age-appropriate way, I spend much more time...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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