Utilizing Lean Leadership Principles to Build an Academic Primary Care Practice of the Future

We describe a Lean-informed approach that emphasizes the importance of organizational alignment in goals, evidence-based problem solving, and leadership behaviors to support a culture of continuous improvement. Our aim in this Perspective is to provide a real-world example of a feasible process for the planning, preparation, and execution of effective transformation, and to present lessons that may be useful to other academic health center practices seeking to develop innovative models to achieve the quadruple aim.
Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research