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Opening Keynote: Transforming Healthcare - Better, Faster and More Affordable
For years, Washington State has been a leader in enlightened health care policy. We are now aligning with provisions of the Accountable Care Act that will welcome many additional citizens into our health care system. This opportunity, however, comes at a time when the entire health care sector is struggling with the issues of affordability, access, and quality. The months ahead will require new attitudes and new tools to achieve rapid, comprehensive and coordinated change. In 2000, we concluded that Virginia Mason Medical Center was part of a much larger healthcare system that was heading in the wrong direction in terms of priorities, efficiency and effectiveness. Over the last decade, we have reoriented our attitude to aspire to create the perfect patient experience. Such an aspiration required new tools to bring out the best in providers: the tools needed to create a quantum improvement in safety, quality, affordability and access, the tools necessary to create reliable systems. We found these tools in an unlikely place: a Japanese automaker. Applying attitudes and tools learned from Toyota have allowed us to become a leader in health care quality and innovation. This presentation will illustrate how we can work together to apply the attitudes and tools to make all we offer to our community better, faster and more affordable. Presented by Dr. Robert Mecklenburg of Virginia Mason Medical Center.From:washingtongovernmentViews:0 0ratingsTime:53:29More inNews Politics

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