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Expert Learning Series: The Affordable Care Act – Impact on Hospitals & Healthcare

2023-10-06T13:00:35-04:00By |Financial, Health Care Reform, Learning Series, News and Events, Webinars|

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has begun to revolutionize healthcare, but even bigger changes are on the way, and those in the Hospital industry are dealing with everything from an increased emphasis on customer satisfaction to decreased reimbursement and rapidly changing payment models. Find out the critical components you need to know to be successful in the new healthcare environment. Join us 12/19 for the free webinar The Affordable Care Act - Impact on Hospitals & Healthcare.

Lean Management for Healthcare Organizations Part 2

2017-04-02T13:28:44-04:00By |Lean Management, Learning Series, Services|

Recipes for implementation and lessons learned from failures have been reported; the common threads of these were that organizations need to change at a behavioral and cultural level and this should be translated directly into an endless process of continuous improvement. Despite these being framed in the realm of tangible strategic business direction, “cultural changes” and “endless improvement” are abstract concepts; furthermore, these principles imply that there is no horizon for successfully completing the task because the improvement process is infinite.

Lean Management for Healthcare Organizations (1)

2017-04-02T13:28:44-04:00By |Lean Management, Learning Series, Services|

In healthcare, as in numerous other industries, lean management is gathering increasing momentum. In a 2013 article for the National Center for Biotechnology Information titled Lean Management—The Journey from Toyota to Healthcare (©2013 Teich and Faddoul), Sorin T. Teich, D.M.D., M.B.A., and Fady F. Faddoul, D.M.D., M.Sc. provided a comprehensive overview of what lean management is, and how its principles can be applied to the healthcare industry:

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