Comments on: Small practices leading the way: ACP’s Center for Practice Innovation http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166 Engaging consumers with information therapy (Ix) and HIT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: PCHIT Personas: Small Practice | Patient Centered Health Information Technology (PCHIT) http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166#comment-47 PCHIT Personas: Small Practice | Patient Centered Health Information Technology (PCHIT) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:06:52 +0000 http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166#comment-47 [...] Center for Practice Innovation, American College of Physicians [...] […] Center for Practice Innovation, American College of Physicians […]

]]> By: DailyKaizen » My First Visual System / The “Have Nots” have a lot http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166#comment-46 DailyKaizen » My First Visual System / The “Have Nots” have a lot Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:19:00 +0000 http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166#comment-46 [...] encounter I had with the American College of Physicians’ Center for Practice Innovation on my other blog. Almost every presentation demonstrated work that was directly related to components of LEAN [...] […] encounter I had with the American College of Physicians’ Center for Practice Innovation on my other blog. Almost every presentation demonstrated work that was directly related to components of LEAN […]

]]> By: Joe Kimura http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166#comment-45 Joe Kimura Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:53:14 +0000 http://ixcenterblog.org/archives/166#comment-45 Hi Ted: I think you hit upon some critical points around innovation in heatlhcare delivery systems. I concur with your assessment that a lot of the innovation is plowing much further ahead in smaller, community practices/hospitals. In addition, many for-profit health systems are driving hard in these areas. This makes sense to me from a management perspective given the focus patient care (perhaps more accurately stated as the lack of other foci of interest) and their core competencies of operational excellence. Many of us in not-for-profit, larger systems can stand to learn a lot from the broader community. Thanks for the post! Joe Hi Ted:

I think you hit upon some critical points around innovation in heatlhcare delivery systems. I concur with your assessment that a lot of the innovation is plowing much further ahead in smaller, community practices/hospitals. In addition, many for-profit health systems are driving hard in these areas.

This makes sense to me from a management perspective given the focus patient care (perhaps more accurately stated as the lack of other foci of interest) and their core competencies of operational excellence.

Many of us in not-for-profit, larger systems can stand to learn a lot from the broader community.

Thanks for the post!

Joe

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