Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation

Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation

by Paul E. Plsek
Released October 2013
Publisher(s): Productivity Press
ISBN: 9781482203844

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Book description

Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) was one of the first health care organizations to implement Lean and its methodologies. Other organizations have followed VMMC’s lead, but this world class organization still leads in the utilization of innovative Lean tools.

Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation: The Virginia Mason Experience describes how VMMC has systematically integrated innovative structures, methods, and cultural practices into its implementation of Lean. Describing how your organization can create a strategy and build a culture of innovation and learning, it supplies concrete examples that show—not just conceptually, but through VMMC's actual experiences—how Lean and innovation can work hand-in-hand to incrementally improve and radically transform your value streams.

Explaining how to use the voices and experiences of patients and their families to drive improvement and innovation in new directions, the book supplies a clear understanding of how Lean can help you achieve your goals in today’s increasingly demanding marketplace.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Note about This Book
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. About the Author
  8. Chapter 1: Virginia Mason, Lean, and Innovation (1/4)
  9. Chapter 1: Virginia Mason, Lean, and Innovation (2/4)
  10. Chapter 1: Virginia Mason, Lean, and Innovation (3/4)
  11. Chapter 1: Virginia Mason, Lean, and Innovation (4/4)
  12. Chapter 2: Strategy as Innovation, Strategy for Innovation (1/5)
  13. Chapter 2: Strategy as Innovation, Strategy for Innovation (2/5)
  14. Chapter 2: Strategy as Innovation, Strategy for Innovation (3/5)
  15. Chapter 2: Strategy as Innovation, Strategy for Innovation (4/5)
  16. Chapter 2: Strategy as Innovation, Strategy for Innovation (5/5)
  17. Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice (1/6)
  18. Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice (2/6)
  19. Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice (3/6)
  20. Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice (4/6)
  21. Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice (5/6)
  22. Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice (6/6)
  23. Chapter 4: Learning to Be Innovative (1/4)
  24. Chapter 4: Learning to Be Innovative (2/4)
  25. Chapter 4: Learning to Be Innovative (3/4)
  26. Chapter 4: Learning to Be Innovative (4/4)
  27. Chapter 5: Supportive Culture for Innovation (1/5)
  28. Chapter 5: Supportive Culture for Innovation (2/5)
  29. Chapter 5: Supportive Culture for Innovation (3/5)
  30. Chapter 5: Supportive Culture for Innovation (4/5)
  31. Chapter 5: Supportive Culture for Innovation (5/5)
  32. Chapter 6: Supportive Infrastructure for Innovation (1/3)
  33. Chapter 6: Supportive Infrastructure for Innovation (2/3)
  34. Chapter 6: Supportive Infrastructure for Innovation (3/3)
  35. Chapter 7: Bringing Innovation to Daily Work (1/5)
  36. Chapter 7: Bringing Innovation to Daily Work (2/5)
  37. Chapter 7: Bringing Innovation to Daily Work (3/5)
  38. Chapter 7: Bringing Innovation to Daily Work (4/5)
  39. Chapter 7: Bringing Innovation to Daily Work (5/5)
  40. Chapter 8: Using Patient Experience to Drive Innovation (1/4)
  41. Chapter 8: Using Patient Experience to Drive Innovation (2/4)
  42. Chapter 8: Using Patient Experience to Drive Innovation (3/4)
  43. Chapter 8: Using Patient Experience to Drive Innovation (4/4)
  44. Chapter 9: Looking Ahead: The Future of Innovation and Lean at the Virginia Mason Medical Center (1/3)
  45. Chapter 9: Looking Ahead: The Future of Innovation and Lean at the Virginia Mason Medical Center (2/3)
  46. Chapter 9: Looking Ahead: The Future of Innovation and Lean at the Virginia Mason Medical Center (3/3)
  47. Source Notes
  48. Bibliography
  49. Glossary
  50. Back Cover

Product information

  • Title: Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation
  • Author(s): Paul E. Plsek
  • Release date: October 2013
  • Publisher(s): Productivity Press
  • ISBN: 9781482203844