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2012 High Performance Virtual Summit

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New White Paper

Enterprise Risk Management: Proof or Promise?

There is overwhelming consensus among financial services executives that the current risk environment has become significantly more complex, dynamic, and difficult to navigate. Some new mandates are expensive and cut into margins and profitability, so there is a real motivation to not only comply but to more effectively manage the response and cost.

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AMN Healthcare: Providers Re-engineering Healthcare for Greater Efficiency

With healthcare reimbursement becoming tighter and patients expecting more from their providers, hospitals and other health systems are seeking ways to change processes and become more efficient.

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Lean and Six Sigma in Healthcare - Solving the New Dilemma: Improving Patient Outcomes and Reducing Costs

With healthcare costs on a continuous upward trend, it’s not surprising that there is an underlying assumption that quality healthcare is expensive. Or that to improve the quality of care, you have to spend more.

However, recent experiences demonstrate that healthcare organizations can prove both of these assumptions false—if they adopt business improvement methods. From the Cleveland Clinic to Kaiser Permanente, healthcare organizations of all types have shown that they can improve patient outcomes and simultaneously control or reduce costs.

This paper provides a brief overview of Lean and Six Sigma, the two most effective improvement disciplines used in business today, and shows they can successfully be applied in healthcare.

While Lean Sigma is not a silver bullet for driving business performance improvement, it is a key element of a high-performing business ecosystem which provides the ongoing catalyst to drive innovation while also improving business outcomes.