Everyone Gains from Lean
Everyone, whether they are senior management, middle management, line management or the hands-on employee has much to gain from Lean. Lean can buffer the impact of chronic issues of emotional fatigue and performance pressure. It also helps with the stress of...
Fostering Healthcare Innovation in Vermont
In my recent encounters with leaders who are fostering healthcare innovation in Vermont, I have observed that leadership within the ACOs, The Vermont Medical Society, forward-looking and socially oriented members of Faculty at the UVM Medical School, the leadership of...
Lean Can Address Burnout?
Why is it that the discussion of Lean so rarely becomes a discussion of how Lean can address the issues of burnout while reducing waste and improving value for patients? If Lean were presented with a more robust description and elucidation of its mechanisms that...
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...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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