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#Lean & A Mobile Paramedic Pilot at Geisinger Health *
FromLean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
#Lean & A Mobile Paramedic Pilot at Geisinger Health *
FromLean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
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67 minutes
Released:
Oct 11, 2017
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Podcast episode
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My guests for Episode #289 are Kathleen Sharp, MBOE, LSS MBB, now the Director of Optimization at McLeod Health, and David Schoenwetter, D.O., FACEP, a Medical Director at Geisinger Medical Center. They are joining me to talk about the innovative Geisinger Mobile Health Paramedic program that they developed and piloted with Lean thinking throughout. Kathleen and David will discuss why it was important to engage stakeholders in innovation, how they viewed and addressed resistance to change, why it was important to test the idea in practice, and why it was important to measure results. They also discuss their lessons learned and their challenges along the way. This WSJ article has a nice summary of the program: "Paramedics Aren't Just for Emergencies." "In the Geisinger pilot program, mobile health visits can be requested by a patient's primary-care doctor, a cardiology clinic, or after an emergency room or hospital discharge. Patients who frequently visit the ER are offered the option of being seen at home by a paramedic as an alternative to an ER visit and potential hospital admission, especially for conditions that can be treated at home if caught early." I hope you enjoy the episode.
Released:
Oct 11, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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