PRESS RELEASE:
Quality Colloquium Features Learning from Toyota: How the Lessons of W. Edwards Deming can be Applied to Improving Healthcare Quality
  • An Executive Education Course on Patient Safety, Healthcare Quality Enhancement and Medical Errors Reduction for Healthcare Executives, Clinicians and Patient Care Staff
  • Classes Held in Harvard University's Annenberg Hall and Sanders Theatre
  • Colloquium Hotels: The Inn at Harvard and Harvard Square Hotel, Cambridge, MA
  • August 22 - 25, 2004
  • www.QualityColloquium.com
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Paul Tunnecliff
800-684-4549 phone
registration@hcconferences.com

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE (TM) -- JUNE 23, 2004: The Quality Colloquium, August 22 - 25, 2004, www.QualityColloquium.com, on the campus of Harvard University announced a special session on Learning from Toyota: How the Lessons of W. Edwards Deming can be Applied to Healthcare presented by Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA on Wednesday, August 25, 2004.

IMPROVING HEALTHCARE QUALITY: LEARNING FROM TOYOTA:

In 2003 and 2004 executives from Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle made three trips to visit Toyota's manufacturing floor in Japan to learn the techniques of what's called "lean manufacturing," with the goal of applying them to healthcare. According to mathematician and consultant W. Edwards Deming, as much of 40 percent of a company's expenses result from waste -- systems and processes that are poorly designed. Waste and the quality of health care are linked, says Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Mason Medical Center. Waste is directly related to low patient and employee satisfaction, poor customer service and errors in medical treatment. Dr. Kaplan will share his experiences at Toyota on Wednesday, August 25, 2005 at the Quality Colloquium on the campus of Harvard University.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD

Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH
Founder and President, Health Technology Center, Former Director, California Department of Health Services, Former New Jersey Commissioner of Health, San Francisco, CA

Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD
Executive Director, The Leapfrog Group, Washington, DC

Timothy T. Flaherty, MD
Chair of the National Patient Safety Foundation, Former Chair and Board Member of the American Medical Association, Neenah, WI

Brent C. James, MD, Mstat
Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Health Care, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT

Gary S. Kaplan, MD
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Associate Clinical Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Paul Keckley, PhD
Director, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Advisor, HealthGate, Nashville, TN

Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH
President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington, DC

George F. Lynn, MBA
President, AtlantiCare, Chair-Elect, American Hospital Association, Egg Harbor Township, NJ

Linda Magno
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD

Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative, Executive Director, Foundation for eHealth Initiative and Connecting for Health, Washington, DC

Arthur Miller, Esq.
Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Roxanne O'Brasky
President, International Society of Six Sigma Professionals
Scottsdale, AZ

Peggy E. O'Kane
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, DC

Dennis S. O'Leary, MD
President; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

William G. Plested, III, MD
Trustee, American Medical Association, Immediate Past Chair, Board of Trustees AMA, Chicago, IL

Jane Poulter, BSN, MSA
Senior Staff, Baldrige National Quality Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Susanne Stoiber, MS
Executive Officer, Institute of Medicine, Former Assistant Secretary for Health/Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Sean Tunis, MD, MSc
Chief Medical Officer, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Paul Wallace, MD
Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute (CMI), Oakland, CA

COLLOQUIUM SPECIAL SESSIONS:
  • Patient Safety Officer Training Sponsored by the Patient Safety Officers Section of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians
  • Trends in Quality Standards and Evidence Based Medicine
  • Healthcare Quality and Medical Error Reduction: The Role of Technology
  • Six Sigma as a Healthcare Quality Initiative
  • Pay for Performance as a Lever for Healthcare Quality
  • Using Baldrige Criteria to Achieve Performance Excellence
  • Learning from Toyota: How the Lessons of W. Edwards Deming can be Applied to Healthcare
COLLOQUIUM SPONSORED BY TRAIN FOR PATIENT SAFETY:

The Quality Colloquium is sponsored by Train for Patient Safety, www.TrainforPatientSafety.com, which comprehensive onl;ine health care training for patient safety improvement, medical errors reduction and healthcare quality enhancement.

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