Funded by Cambridge, Mass.-based Lean Enterprise Institute, Mercer Island, Wash.-based Rona Consulting Group and Appleton, Wis.-based ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, CLEAR will find new ways of transforming healthcare delivery to improve patient outcomes and reduce overall costs.
One of CLEAR’s focuses will be on lean programs. Lean is a management system that encourages frontline workers to eliminate waste, develop standard work and solve problems. Not only will CLEAR researchers study lean whole system transformation efforts, but CLEAR as an entity will partner with organizations that are in the process of putting lean methodologies into practice.
“[CLEAR’s] research will focus on lean methods designed to improve the healthcare system,” said Stephen Shortell, PhD, dean emeritus and professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “We will examine new payment models that reward value, identify new ways to lead and manage healthcare organizations and discover how care providers and health systems can create greater value for patients.”
CLEAR will be an affiliate of the Berkeley School of Public Health’s Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research (CHOIR).
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