{"id":2512,"date":"2020-01-14T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:01:07","slug":"ihis-trillion-dollar-aim-reduce-healthcare-waste-by-50-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/ihis-trillion-dollar-aim-reduce-healthcare-waste-by-50-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"IHI&#8217;s Trillion Dollar Aim &#8211; Reduce Healthcare Waste by 50% by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>IHI set a goal to reduce healthcare waste by 50% by 2025. Here&#8217;s how to do it with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/IHI-Trillion-Dollar-Prescription.pdf\">Trillion Dollar Prescription<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/380313865?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma for Hospitals.\u201d We were just out at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement conference in Orlando, Florida. [There were] like, 4500 medical doctors and nurses and CNO&#8217;s and CNMO&#8217;s and people all involved in improving healthcare quality. This is their 31st annual conference. (I can tell you based on what I was looking at on the posters, people are not really aggressively going after change&#8230;)<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The IHI announced that it&#8217;s tackling what they call the \u201cTrillion-Dollar Checkbook.\u201d Their goal is to cut health care waste by 50% by 2025 &#8211; that&#8217;s five years from now. You know, that&#8217;s a big, hairy, audacious goal. Two hundred billion [dollars] would pay for the Affordable Care Act, three hundred billion [dollars] would start to pay down the national debt, right? (Can you say [offsetting the cost of] Medicare, boys and girls?)<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;This is a huge opportunity, but we can&#8217;t go at it the way we&#8217;ve always gone at it, you know? You can&#8217;t wait a month or four months for somebody to get trained as a Green Belt or Black Belt and then wait 16 months for a project to finish. No, you&#8217;ve got to start getting results right now, right? You need speed, and you&#8217;re going to need software to do it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The thing is, you don&#8217;t have to fix everything there is in a hospital. As little as four percent; narrow your focus. Four percent of what&#8217;s going on is producing half the waste and rework. That&#8217;s why if we just narrow it down with some data and figure out exactly where the four percent is, fix that, we can get that 50 percent easy! I think we could do it in 24 months if we wanted to instead of five years; I think that&#8217;s kind of delaying it. (My guess is they&#8217;ll wait until the last year and then there&#8217;ll be a huge race to prove that something got better\u2026)<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the deal: I keep finding people out there that are changing the way they&#8217;re approaching Six Sigma and they&#8217;re doing it much the way I&#8217;ve done for the last 20 years. Here&#8217;s my book \u201cAgile Process Innovation. Hacking Lean and Six Sigma for Maximum Results.&#8221; This could help hospitals get to Zero Harm pretty fast. It&#8217;s a one day training; one day. Then you&#8217;re going to need QI Macros software and you&#8217;re going to have to give that to everybody so that they can start to make improvements and do data analysis to find the 4%. I find too many people are out there trying to figure out how to save a few nickels and dimes on software, as opposed to trying to maximize the benefit of the improvements that they create with that software.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Anyway, this is just my observation. I think there&#8217;s this opportunity to really dramatically reduce unnecessary costs in health care. A trillion dollars of waste, cut it in half in five years and start paying down lots of debt and things of that nature. Now, you know a lot of our political candidates are out there are saying, \u201cLet&#8217;s find some way to tax the rich (or the whatever or businesses or something) to pay for all these social programs we want.\u201d Nobody, but nobody&#8217;s thinking about \u201cHow do we reduce the costs that are out there?\u201d If we reduce health care costs by 50%, that&#8217;s going to dramatically improve how much we pay through Medicare and so on. Nobody&#8217;s talking about \u201cHow do we reduce the cost of government?\u201d because we know at least a third of that is waste. Nobody&#8217;s talking about that.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So anyway, that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s create hassle free health care; let&#8217;s create a hassle free world. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHI set a goal to reduce healthcare waste by 50% by 2025. 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