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Helping Health Systems Find the Right Balance Between Standardization and Flexibility Posted in: Strategic Growth and Innovation - All of our national and super-regional clients are moving along a journey to become “operating companies” and trying to discern the right balance between standardization and flexibility. We find many of these organizations still in the early stages of identifying these “best practices” and understanding the impact of national standards… Full story »
A Process for Improving Clinical Utilization Posted in: Clinical Quality Improvement - If hospital leadership expects to achieve efficiencies, stay competitive, maintain compliance and quality of care, the performance of individual services must be continuously measured, monitored and assessed. Evaluating and identifying improvement areas and introducing appropriate interventions can be time consuming – particularly because opportunities are often spread across all service… Full story »
Creating an Organizational Sense of Urgency Posted in: Strategic Growth and Innovation, Sustainable Margin Improvement and Financial Turnaround - Achieving organizational urgency is easy when the house is on fire. More challenging is moving your company out of its comfort zone and the status-quo toward improvement. Sometimes that sense of urgency is clouded by excuses that seem reasonable – and that every year supposedly “unique” one-off excuses arise – masking the organization’s urgent… Full story »
Accelerate Improvement through Clinician Engagement Posted in: Uncategorized - The advent of population health and accountable care models are forcing hospitals to improve acute care cost performance. While many healthcare organizations team with medical staffs and clinicians to identify and pursue clinical utilization improvement opportunities, these initiatives frequently fall short of producing tangible results. There are six dimensions critical to… Full story »
Achieving Lasting Change Posted in: Strategic Growth and Innovation - Change is hard and change is even harder to make stick. Many organizations are full of well-intentioned initiatives that seem to work fine during the first few months of implementation but frequently lose their momentum and begin to drift back to the status quo. There are plenty of reasons this… Full story »
