A recent report provided to the White House by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology titled “Report to the President: Better Health Care and Lower Costs: Accelerating Improvement Through Systems Engineering” makes seven systems engineering recommendations to address the challenges in health care. I’m pleased to see Baldrige as part of one of the recommendations (Recommendation #6 … Read More
Baldrige and the Impact of Obamacare
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act will stress a health care system that is already under the strain of an aging baby boomer population. New patients are expected to flood the system starting in early 2014, part of 25 million uninsured Americans projected to get health coverage by 2016, according to the Congressional Budget Office. In “The Waiting Room … Read More
The Baldrige Award: The Journey Is the Win
By Paul Grizzell Is your organization at the top of your game? If so, maybe you’re wondering how to make those incremental improvements to reach the highest level of performance excellence. Or perhaps your organization’s performance is just mediocre and leaders are looking for a method to accelerate improvement efforts. Maybe performance is even poor, and you need a way … Read More
Harvard Business Review healthcare article
I recently received my April issue of Harvard Business Review. This issue has several excellent articles in a Spotlight on Fixing Health Care. My recommendation – go to the local bookstore and buy it or buy reprints from the www.hbr.com website. Note that Harvard Business Review is very picky about making copies of their articles. Turning Doctors into Leaders HBR article … Read More
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