Each year at the Congress on Healthcare Leadership, ACHE hosts a Management Innovations Poster Session where healthcare executives present innovations that address challenges facing their organizations. These innovations are judged on creativity, applicability to other organizations, and usefulness to the healthcare management field. (View more information on the upcoming 2010 Poster Session.)

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Following is a list of presentations from the 2009 Management Innovations Poster Session. For descriptions of the innovations, access the 2009 presentation abstracts (PDF). To learn more about any presentation, please contact the senior presenter. The contact information for each senior presenter is included in the document’s appendix. You may also wish to review the 2008 presentation abstracts (PDF).

Operations

"Care Management Improvement Initiative"

"New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Emergency Department Laboratory Test Turnaround Time Project"

"Fixing the Front Door: Mercy Medical Center's PROJECT 10K Drives ED Volume and Service Enhancements"

"Increased Revenue Streams and Improved Patient Flow Through Operational Efficiencies"

"LeanSigma in Endoscopy Practice to Reduce Patient Wait Time and Improve NOI"

"Cut it out! Lean Methodology in Referring Physician Office Operations"

Patient Care

"Tapping Experts at Every Level to Achieve Medication Reconciliation in the Outpatient Setting"

"Afghan National Police Patient Movement"

"Perinatal Proven Care:  Applying Reliability Science to Drive Outcomes and Increase Revenue"

Cost Savings/Revenue Raising

"Delivering Tomorrow's Technology, Today"

"Cost Savings Accrued Through Treating Inmates Via Telemedicine"

"A Lean Sigma Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Multidisciplinary Clinic Care Visits"

Quality and Organizational Change

"Driving Quality Outcomes Using Innovative Laboratory Middleware"

"Unbundling the Complexity of CMS's AMI Bundle:  Achieving Improved Compliance Through Six Sigma and Lean Techniques"

"An Innovative Approach to Improving Governance Led Accountability for Quality & Patient Safety"

Human Resources

"Implementing a Surgical Hospitalist Program in a Community Medical Center"

"VANIHCS AMAZING RACE: Innovation in Staff Education and Training"

"The STAR Partnership - A Case Study in Successful Talent Acquisition and Retention"

"The Value of Value Stream Mapping"