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Feb 20, 2012

NOVACES to Showcase “Performance Improvement for Healthcare” Book at HIMSS12 in Las Vegas

NOVACES, a leading consulting firm for healthcare IT performance improvement, will showcase its new book “Performance Improvement for Healthcare” at the 2012 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas on Feb. 20-24. Recognized as one of the world’s largest conferences in the healthcare industry, HIMSS12 brings together global healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems consultants and professionals.



NOVACES has established itself as one of the industry’s top healthcare performance improvement consulting firms. It has partnered with healthcare administrators, medical staff and IT departments at private and military hospitals, healthcare systems and medical campuses around the world. The firm’s “Performance Improvement for Healthcare”, published by McGraw-Hill Professional, presents proven strategies to improve the adoption of transformational change, such as the implementation of new technology and information systems.



NOVACES offers its clients expertise in solving a wide array of healthcare IT challenges, a team of healthcare and MIS experts and proven methodologies for process improvement. Together, these assets produce a high return on investment and empower healthcare organizations to affect sustainable business process changes that positively impact patient outcomes, operational efficiencies, data integrity and resource allocation.



Healthcare information technology is the future for patient care delivery. In order for that to be successful, ensure efficiency and effectiveness, well defined processes and systems need to be designed. Providers want to practice medicine and have the best technology to support patient care with safe clinical outcomes.



The 2012 HIMSS annual conference is expected to attract about 30,000 attendees. The event features more than 400 educational sessions on topics including accountable care organizations (ACOs), meaningful use, clinical engineering, RFID, RTLS, EMR and EHR, value-based healthcare purchasing, mobile health, clinical and business analytics and intelligence, medical cloud computing and ICD-10 conversion and compliance and the secondary use of medical data.



Copies of the book will be available for sale at the NOVACES booth #113 in the exhibition hall.



About NOVACES

NOVACES is one of the industry’s leading healthcare performance improvement consulting firms. The company specializes in healthcare performance improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and quality management consulting and training services to hospitals, health systems, large physician networks, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. The firm’s book, “Performance Improvement for Healthcare,” provides healthcare organizations with a framework to deploy a best of breed performance improvement program that yields sustainable change and an outstanding annual return on investment. For more information, visit www.novaces.com/healthcare or call 1.855.NOVACES.

Jan 31, 2012

Healthcare Change Leader Deborah Smith Takes the Helm of Healthcare Services for NOVACES

Smith to drive Lean healthcare, Six Sigma and Constraints Management services to streamline flow, improve quality and safety, and eliminate constraints in healthcare processes.

New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 — NOVACES, a leading management consulting firm that helps healthcare organizations implement performance improvement strategies, announced today that Deborah Smith, Ph.D. has taken the new position of Senior Vice President of Healthcare Services with the company.





The post-reform environment has created an urgent need for transformational change and Ms. Smith’s background in championing progressive strategies for large health systems throughout her career related to performance improvement, strategic planning, organizational culture, leadership and technology puts her in a unique position to meet the needs of the company’s healthcare clients.





“Healthcare leaders have some of the most complex challenges,” says Deborah Smith. “Working with NOVACES allows me to provide strategic guidance, performance improvement solutions and the development of true partnership that designs the best decisions to transform healthcare.”





NOVACES services, such as the use of a blended performance improvement toolset consisting of Lean healthcare, Six Sigma and Constraints Management, provides the most effective tools needed to streamline flow, improve quality and safety, and eliminate constraints in healthcare processes. Healthcare Lean Six Sigma performance improvement consultants play a pivotal role in executing the changes necessitated by healthcare reform.





CEO Dr. Bahadir Inozu stated “With the company’s quickly growing market share of performance improvement services to hospitals, health systems, military healthcare and the VA, we knew that NOVACES needed a visionary leader with a proven track record of implementing progressive ideas in the healthcare industry. We quickly recognized that Deborah had just the kind of inspirational leadership and vision that our clients are looking for.”





Ms. Smith takes the helm of healthcare services as publisher McGraw-Hill Professional has released the company’s new book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management. The book highlights how performance improvement tools apply to major needs in the hospital C-suite including strategy alignment, project prioritization and management, leadership development, information system workflows, and healthcare facility modernization.





About NOVACES

NOVACES is a leading provider of healthcare performance improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and quality management consulting and training services to hospitals, health systems, large physician networks, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. Employing its SystemCPI roadmap, the company provides a framework to deploy and manage a performance improvement program that enables clients to rapidly achieve return on investment and sustainable change. For more information, visit http://www.novaces.com or call 1-877-577-6888.

Nov 22, 2011

Special Interest Breakfast Presentation at 2011 Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum to Focus on ‘Force Multipliers’ for Healthcare Performance Improvement

Authors Dr. Bahadir Inozu and Dr. Bob Halder to present how hospitals and health systems can lead healthcare reform efforts with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management to achieve their healthcare transformation strategies.

November 17, 2011 (PRWEB) New Orleans, LA – “The Picture of Healthcare” is the theme of this year’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. This theme serves as recognition of the impact that federal healthcare reform will have on the existing picture of U.S. healthcare. During the Forum, there will be a Special Interest Breakfast Presentation that will highlight the management methods that best prepare healthcare leaders to negotiate the transformative changes needed to achieve the future picture of U.S. healthcare. The presentation centers around the new book “Performance Improvement for Health Care: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management.”



The breakfast presentation on Wednesday, December 7 from 7:00-7:45 AM at the IHI’s National Forum will be led by author Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D. and Robert Halder, MD, Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret), who wrote the foreword for the book.



The presentation is designed for healthcare leaders who are interested in learning how process improvement methods can be used to achieve strategies for improving the patient experience, reducing the cost of care, exceeding benchmarks for quality measures, preparing for Value Based Purchasing, and meeting Meaningful Use goals.



At a time when the industry is undergoing unprecedented change, methods like Lean healthcare and Six Sigma for hospitals have received significant press attention due to the improvements in quality and efficiency that they have produced in hospitals, health systems, healthcare clinics and long term care facilities.



Dr. Inozu believes that these initiatives need a systems perspective to focus efforts on the most important priorities for the organization. A method called Constraints Management has the toolset to create this focus for a leadership team and break difficult organizational constraints that prevent transformation from occurring.



When asked why healthcare leaders should implement this method, Dr. Inozu commented, “Constraints Management is a ‘force multiplier’ for healthcare Lean Six Sigma deployments and will exponentially expand the impact of process improvement and its return-on-investment on such complex organizations.”



Dr. Inozu plans a book signing after the Special Interest Presentation at the National Forum bookstore between 9:00 and 9:30 AM.



About the Book

Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management offers the “best of breed” integration of performance improvement approaches in terms of impacting patient experience, financial viability, and employee satisfaction.



While the goal is to improve performance across all aspects of the organization, the path is through identifying processes that are not meeting expectations—and fixing them. Unlike “one size fits all” approaches, such as Lean only or Six Sigma only, the approach in this book integrates three main methodologies – Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints (TOC) – by focusing on what is critical to the organization. By using the right tool for the right problem at the right time, the authors show how to deliver faster results and greater return on investment.



About Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D.

Bahadir is a founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of NOVACES, a leading provider of continuous process improvement consulting and training services. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Theory of Constraints Jonah. He has over 20 years of performance improvement experience in Government, Healthcare, Maritime and MRO industries.



About Robert Halder, MD, Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret)

Bob Halder, MD is the Executive Medical Consultant for NOVACES. As Commanding Officer of the Navy’s largest hospital and initial member of the Harvard National Demonstration Project, led by Dr. Donald Berwick, he paved the way for the implementation of Total Quality Leadership throughout Navy Medicine. He subsequently served as SeniorVP, Juran Institute, and guided the developement of the initial accreditation standards for continuous process improvement for the Joint Commission.

Sep 8, 2011

Performance Improvement for Healthcare Book Combines Methodologies for a “Best of Breed” Must Read

Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D. and his team of authors combine healthcare experience to bring a new book that presents the latest advancements in performance improvement including Lean, Six Sigma and Constraints Management to help hospitals prepare for the Affordable Care Act.

New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) September 08, 2011



NOVACES, a leading management consulting firm based in New Orleans that provides performance improvement, continuous process improvement (CPI), and project management services to public and private sector organizations, announced today the release of their new book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management, published by McGraw-Hill Professional and available now.



The book presents readers with a strategy for managing bottlenecks, eliminating waste, reducing errors, and containing costs in healthcare organizations. And, importantly, it lays a framework for sustaining the gains achieved. Real-world case studies throughout the book illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that have realized breakthrough operational and financial results.



Authors Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D., Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, Charles Mount have combined their knowledge and performance improvement experience to publish a book that integrates the latest advancements in performance improvement. “For those who are dissatisfied with the status quo in terms of patient experience, financial viability, and employee satisfaction, this book offers the ‘best of breed’ in healthcare performance improvement approaches,” says Bahadir Inozu, co-author and founding partner of NOVACES.



The case studies highlighted in Performance Improvement for Healthcare show how the combination of Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management (or Theory of Constraints) can solve the critical problems that prevent hospitals from being prepared for the changes required by the Affordable Care Act and the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) payment model.



Bob Halder, a physician and retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, is a vocal proponent of the concepts in the book and the role they will play in assisting healthcare with this transformation. When asked about Performance Improvement for Healthcare, Dr. Halder responded that the book “features numerous concrete, relevant, real-life examples of successful applications of this performance improvement system in hospital and clinic settings. It is readable, understandable, and implementable.”



The book is available for sale on Amazon.com and is available at major retailers. A book launch and author signing is planned at the National Association for Healthcare Quality’s (NAHQ) 36th Annual Educational Conference on September 16 and 17 in Sacramento’s Convention Center at booth #403.



For review copies, please contact:

Bettina Faltermeier, McGraw-Hill Professional

bettina_faltermeier(at)mcgraw-hill(dot)com; 212-512-4014



About NOVACES

NOVACES is a leading provider of healthcare performance improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and quality management consulting and training services to hospitals, health systems, large physician networks, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. Employing its SystemCPI roadmap, the company provides a framework to deploy and manage a performance improvement program that enables clients to rapidly achieve return on investment and self-sufficiency. For more information, visit http://www.novaces.com or call 1-877-577-6888.



About the Authors

Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D., is a founding partner and the Chief Executive Officer of NOVACES, LLC, a leading provider of continuous process improvement consulting and training services. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Theory of Constraints Jonah. Dr. Inozu has been teaching undergraduate, graduate, and adult education courses on Process Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Reliability and Maintenance Management, Marine Engineering, and Executive Leader Training courses on Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) for over 20 years.



Dan Chauncey is the Director of Deployment Services for NOVACES where he has served as the technical program manager for the deployment of CPI across patient care in the U.S. Navy Medical Enterprise. He currently leads a team of five Master Black Belts embedded at mid-level commands across Navy Medicine and has previously provided consulting and training for deployments at United Health Services, and Somerset Medical Center and also served as Director of Process Improvement and Organizational Development at University Health System.



Vickie Kamataris, RN, CPHQ is an Advisory Board Member for NOVACES. She is a registered nurse with more than 25 years of clinical experience. As a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with more than 15 years of Performance Improvement experience, Vickie has successfully applied Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and other quality tools and methods to a wide range of healthcare processes, leading clinical, business and military teams to achieve extraordinary results.



Charles Mount, CAPT, USN (Ret.) is the Director of Government Healthcare Services and an ASQ-certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt for NOVACES, LLC. He has 40 years experience serving healthcare, defense and security organizations, as well as 28 years experience in Performance Improvement, leadership, management, and professional development. After almost 39 years on active duty, he retired from the military as a Captain from the Navy Medical Department. He served as the Navy’s national faculty for Basic Life Support for the Navy Surgeon General for 17 years.



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Jun 9, 2011

Michael Hannan Joins NOVACES as the New Head of Government and Defense Practices

Industry veteran brings more than two decades of overseeing process improvement programs in the Federal, Aerospace and Defense sectors and will lead growth withing the company’s government performance improvement services portfolio.





New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) June 9, 2011 — NOVACES LLC, a leading management consulting firm based in New Orleans that provides performance improvement, continuous process improvement (CPI), and project management services to public and private sector organizations, today announced that Michael Hannan has joined the firm as Vice President of Public Sector Services. He will lead both new and organic growth within the company’s rapidly growing public sector portfolio. Hannan comes to NOVACES with extensive leadership experience in Federal Government solution and service delivery, with a focus on large information-technology and defense mission systems integration programs.





Hannan’s appointment serves to reinforce the company’s focus on supporting the implementation of the 2010 Government Performance and Results Modernization Act (GPRAMA). The updated law establishes more rigorous measures of performance across the federal government, imposing significant discipline on government performance improvement and requiring unprecedented interagency process integration. NOVACES is well-positioned to respond to these challenges, coupling its core competency in process improvement with an innovative Critical Chain Project Management offering to help the Government achieve ever-higher levels of efficiency without risking mission success.





“Hannan’s broad range of corporate and government experience will help to further leverage our deep experience in the public sector of aligning an agency’s performance goals with its strategic plan, and providing the tools and methods to execute effectively,” said CEO Baha Inozu of NOVACES. “With the addition of Hannan, we have significantly strengthened the company’s ability to grow in the federal market with our offerings for process improvement and project management that produce dramatic performance improvements and efficiency gains.”





Prior to joining NOVACES, Hannan led multiple high-performing business units and practices at both services and software companies such as Deloitte, General Dynamics IT, and Parametric Technologies Corporation. He is a PMP-certified project manager who has led large delivery teams serving over 20 public and private programs. He holds a Masters Degree in Information Systems from George Washington University.





Hannan’s expertise in IT was also an important factor in his assignment. “It’s not enough to simply map out a process and improve it,” stated Hannan. “Information technology is playing an ever-increasing role in government performance-improvement initiatives, so I am excited that NOVACES has given me the charge to drive its public-sector strategy of infusing seasoned performance improvement expertise with the right mix of technology; too often the government’s big IT modernization initiatives have failed to realize their performance-improvement goals due to a lack of process discipline, and NOVACES can help change that.”





About NOVACES


NOVACES, LLC is a management consulting firm that provides performance improvement, continuous process improvement (CPI), and project management services to public sector organizations. Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, NOVACES utilizes today’s most effective tools and methodologies to help its clients build capabilities to achieve breakthrough operational and financial results. The company’s scope of work for the federal government includes contracts for CPI deployment, mission readiness, training curriculum development, coaching and mentoring, project management, and leadership development for naval shipbuilding, defense logistics, healthcare delivery, missile defense, engineering and garrison services. More information can be found at novaces.com/government-defense or by calling 1-877-577-6888.

May 19, 2011

Bahadir Inozu of NOVACES Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Gulf Coast Area Award Finalist

The nomination recognizes the rapid success of the company and its ongoing commitment to its roots in the Gulf Coast.

New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) May 19, 2011 – NOVACES, a leading management consulting firm for performance management, continuous performance improvement (CPI), and project management services to both the public and private sectors, announced today that the company’s ceo and co-founder Bahadir Inozu , Ph.D., is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Gulf Coast Area Award finalist. Inozu leads the company with the support of co-founders and partners Ivan Radovic and Brian MacClaren. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Inozu was selected as a finalist from nearly 50 nominations by a panel of independent judges. Award winners will be announced at a special gala event on Wednesday, June 22 at the Houston Intercontinental Hotel.

“To be selected a finalist in this prestigious awards program is really a testament to our employees’ capacity for understanding our customers’ businesses,” said Inozu. “NOVACES, with the active participation of all its employees in the strategic priority-setting process, continues to build internal capabilities and develop new products that enable the firm to refine its offerings that clients need to achieve ever higher levels of performance,” he noted.

NOVACES, owing to its Louisiana headquarters, strives to be an active member in the community although the firm’s reach is international in scope. After Hurricane Katrina, the company put together a team of retired military leaders and senior executives to build a training program that provided important management tools to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through its Louisiana Transitional Recovery Organization (LATRO), which was responsible for the enormous recovery effort along the Gulf Coast.

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, NOVACES began helping British Petroleum’s (BP) Incident Command Center to better coordinate and track cleanup performance by providing project plans, program framework, and new methods to track and accelerate their response. This is enabling the Gulf Coast economic and environmental recovery to proceed much more quickly and efficiently.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 140 cities and more than 50 countries throughout the world.

Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Award. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year overall National Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 12, 2011. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies, which will be held November 9–13, 2011.

About NOVACES

NOVACES, LLC is a management consulting firm that provides performance management, continuous process improvement (CPI), and project management services to both public and private sector organizations. Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, NOVACES utilizes today’s most effective tools and methodologies to help its clients build capabilities to achieve breakthrough operational and financial results. More information can be found at novaces.com or by calling 1-877-577-6888.

About Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential, and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 140 cities in more than 50 countries.

About the Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 141,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.

Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young LLP is a client-serving member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited operating in the US. For more information about our organization, please visit www.ey.com.

May 19, 2011

Bahadir Inozu of NOVACES Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Gulf Coast Area Award Finalist

The nomination recognizes the rapid success of the company and its ongoing commitment to its roots in the Gulf Coast.

New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) May 19, 2011 – NOVACES, a leading management consulting firm for performance management, continuous performance improvement (CPI), and project management services to both the public and private sectors, announced today that the company’s ceo and co-founder Bahadir Inozu , Ph.D., is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Gulf Coast Area Award finalist. Inozu leads the company with the support of co-founders and partners Ivan Radovic and Brian MacClaren. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Inozu was selected as a finalist from nearly 50 nominations by a panel of independent judges. Award winners will be announced at a special gala event on Wednesday, June 22 at the Houston Intercontinental Hotel.

“To be selected a finalist in this prestigious awards program is really a testament to our employees’ capacity for understanding our customers’ businesses,” said Inozu. “NOVACES, with the active participation of all its employees in the strategic priority-setting process, continues to build internal capabilities and develop new products that enable the firm to refine its offerings that clients need to achieve ever higher levels of performance,” he noted.

NOVACES, owing to its Louisiana headquarters, strives to be an active member in the community although the firm’s reach is international in scope. After Hurricane Katrina, the company put together a team of retired military leaders and senior executives to build a training program that provided important management tools to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through its Louisiana Transitional Recovery Organization (LATRO), which was responsible for the enormous recovery effort along the Gulf Coast.

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, NOVACES began helping British Petroleum’s (BP) Incident Command Center to better coordinate and track cleanup performance by providing project plans, program framework, and new methods to track and accelerate their response. This is enabling the Gulf Coast economic and environmental recovery to proceed much more quickly and efficiently.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 140 cities and more than 50 countries throughout the world.

Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Award. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year overall National Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 12, 2011. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies, which will be held November 9–13, 2011.

About NOVACES
NOVACES, LLC is a management consulting firm that provides performance management, continuous process improvement (CPI), and project management services to both public and private sector organizations. Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, NOVACES utilizes today’s most effective tools and methodologies to help its clients build capabilities to achieve breakthrough operational and financial results. More information can be found at novaces.com or by calling 1-877-577-6888.

About Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential, and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 140 cities in more than 50 countries.

About the Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 141,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.

Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young LLP is a client-serving member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited operating in the US. For more information about our organization, please visit www.ey.com.