Health Care Futurists
John Kenagy, MD, MPA
Dr. John Kenagy says his 30-year experience as a physician, health system executive and researcher taught him health care is frustratingly difficult to manage because it is not a “traditional business.”
For example, a single community hospital, typically, has more products and services, more change and more unpredictability than many multi-billion dollar global corporations. In this environment, traditional business methods are ineffective: too slow, cumbersome and expensive.

His frustration with current methods was fueled by an injury – he suffered a broken neck in a fall from a tree. He made a complete recovery but discovered that he too often had to depend on the extra efforts of people working in a broken system. Searching for organizational answers beyond “trying harder,” he earned an advanced management degree from Harvard and was appointed a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School from 1998-2002.

At Harvard Business School , his research and teaching focused on the adaptive capabilities of innovative companies like Intel, Toyota and SW Airlines who excelled when others failed. He founded Kenagy & Associates, LLC to transfer those capabilities to health care. The result is ADAPTIVE DESIGNsm - sustainable improvement that starts at the front line by creating a clinical and business focus on Ideal Patient Care then building problem solving and improvement into the work.

Topics



* Healthcare Innovation Strategies
* Safety and Effectiveness at the Point of Care
* Health Care Leadership & Governance
* Managing Innovation
* Adapting to Change
* Improving Performance at the Point of Care
* Improving Productivity and Effectiveness in Healthcare
* Whats Beyond Lean & Six Sigma
* Healthcare Organizational Strategy
* Adaptive Design
* Featured in Forbes Magazine as “the man who would save health care.”


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