Almost all patients and families are willing to consider and talk about future medical decisions if they see how this effort will improve their own treatment. We must be able to explain the benefits of the effort of having the conversation with the patient/family. A standardized, patient-centered, staged approach, rather than legalistic, to these advance care planning conversations is crucial. An organized system of work flows, processes, and electronic medical record (EMR) is needed in all health care settings. The effort of ACP must be built into the routine of care and shown that it improves patient outcomes.

The engagement and alignment of the healthcare workforce defines the culture on which innovation survives. Innovation and Diffusion can follow predictable patterns and require structures and process to insure success. Strategies to address the “Critical Dynamics of Healthcare” needs to be constantly developed to maximize the impact of innovation.

In 1942, the world was at war… Hollywood luminaries like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Sam Goldwyn and the Warner Brothers believed the entertainment community’s contribution to the war relief effort would be strengthened by pooling the whole industry’s resources, and established the Permanent Charities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry, known today as the Entertainment Industry Foundation, or EIF. EIF has evolved from a “community chest” organization for movie studio employees that utilized a payroll deduction approach to a multifaceted, national, collective philanthropy representing our industry that has raised more than $800 million to drive positive change on critical health and social issues.

Laboratory changes are inevitable – bioMérieux can become your partner to help make the best possible laboratory through assessment and transformation to advance excellence. By deploying these methodologies, laboratories will have state-of-the-art tools to deliver streamlined operations that can yield better financial performance and means for improved patient care. Children’s National Medical Center partnered with bioMérieux and Guidon to apply LEAN process to their hospital lab and realized substantial process improvements and more confident clinical decision-making.

Improving the performance, accountability and quality of logistics related services has proven to reduce costs from both a hard dollar and risk perspective. Transporting supplies, documents, specimens, records and equipment from point A to point B consistently in the right quantities and accurately at a reasonable cost has proven to be anything but simple. The reality is that logistics problems are often a deep-rooted complex problem that executive reputations are generally not built on.

As the healthcare industry places more emphasis on value-based performance, hospital executives may want to pause and assess whether their leadership falls under that category. In a world where so many things have come to be value-based, what does mean in terms of leadership? Dr. McKinley said this style of leadership is demonstrated by people who lead with authentic self-expression from the inside-out, and who influence others towards effectiveness.

In this presentation, Vincent L. Frakes, Federal Policy Director, Center for Health Transformation, will be discussing the current state of healthcare, as well as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He will then go into detail on three current issues of healthcare in the current political context.  Vince will also discuss access to care, as well as cost and quality of healthcare. And finally, Vince will discuss producing change and incorporating policy into your business.

This on-demand webinar & presentation with IDC Financial Insights and Guidon discusses principles and the roadmap for building mature and effective Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) that leads to competitive advantages.

This on-demand webinar & presentation discusses and addresses one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today – how to enable your health system to adequately cope and deliver to the baby boomer generation.

In this presentation, Newt Gingrich discusses transformational leadership and the keys to achieving real change.  He shares helpful tips from successful leaders like Dwight D. Eisenhower and he offers a list of suggested reading on the topic.  He also discusses in detail a proven Planning and Leadership Model to help leaders accomplish their objectives through: Values, Vision, Metrics, Strategies, Projects and Tasks.

We are looking out on a dramatically altered business world—with little resemblance to life a few short months ago. In this more complex environment, the ability to anticipate and deal with frequent change, even turmoil, determines survival. Some business leaders have yet to grasp this reality; others are rightly daunted by the challenge. In this presentation, Ron Wince of Guidon Performance Solutions discusses the capabilities needed to manage the complexities of the "new business normal” including 4 principles.

In this presentation, Steve Wall of the State of Ohio gives an overview and background of Lean Six Sigma in the Ohio State Government.  He details some of the results the state has achieved as well as lesson learned and he shares some next steps and helpful tips.

In this presentation, Joseph Campos of Children’s National Medical Center discusses healthcare and laboratory testing using Lean, and the 5 Lean principles that apply to the laboratory.  He shares three case studies from his lab: microbiology lab workload and staffing data, microbiology incoming work cell and automated culture plate inoculation.  Joe also discusses the difference between and traditional approach to microbiology testing versus a Lean approach.

In this presentation, Peter Farrow of Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union shares the basics of “Lean for Credit Unions.” He also discusses some of the reasons Randolph-Brooks considered Lean and ways Lean can be beneficial to any credit union.

We are looking out on a dramatically altered business world—with little resemblance to life a few short months ago. View this on-demand video presentation and webinar in which we discuss the capabilities needed to manage the complexities of the "new business normal."

Larry Mead joined bioMérieux and talked about the benefits of merging two efficiency concepts, Lean and Six Sigma, to benefit the microbiology lab.

In the post-reform world of healthcare, payers will be among the most heavily impacted by the new legislation. Learn more about the complexities of the new legislation and what payers must do now to prepare for the coming change.

Outlining why using Lean Six Sigma to create agile business processes is important and the role of LSS and practitioners in helping businesses thrive.