Why adaptive design and why the UK?

In the US, traditionally managed, volume-driven healthcare is failing to meet the needs of patients, caregivers, some organizations and public policy makers.  Many are saying, "We must transform healthcare!"  But I as a physician, healthcare executive, academic researcher and patient, I have heard that same statement for 40 years.  Are our transformation mindsets, methods and strategies the solution, or are they part of the problem?

This webinar reviewed persistent, pervasive, but very counterintuitive data and evidence that shows:

1.  95% of established, successful organizations, both in and outside of healthcare, consistently fail at transformational innovation
2. The 5% who succeed follow a predictable but non-traditional, counterintuitive path to success
3. That path has been reliably replicated in US healthcare as Adaptive Design - a self-sustaining system for designing doing and improving complex work within and across disciplines.
4. Key to success is increasing adaptive capacity by developing, aligning and coordinating rapid patient-centered decision-making close to where information is generated at the frontline.
5. Adaptive Design therefore creates new, non-traditional. counterintuitive, opportunities for patients, the frontline, management, academics, technology and public policy makers to provide more and better care at continually lower cost in the US and could, presumably, do so in the UK.  

The webinar provoked some excellent debate and discussions and we hope to invite Dr John Kenagy back to the FMLM webinar sessions to develop the conversation further.