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Healthcare transformation is necessary to address rising costs of care. Operational Excellence can optimize care processes and create more value for each patient with the same resources. Operational Excellence uses different optimization tools in a continuous improvement (DMAIC-)cycle to optimize processes. In this regard, process mining can play an important role in discovering, analyzing and controlling care processes by making use of available data. Additionally, understanding the type of care process and care organization is important in order to choose the right Operational Excellence approach. Operational Excellence also includes a combination of leadership and work design (sociotechnical systems) which improves the success of process optimizations., (Copyright 2019, The Author(s).)

The value agenda involves measuring outcomes that matter and costs of care to optimize patient outcomes per dollar spent. Outcome and cost measurement in the value-based health care framework, centered around a patient condition or segment of the population, depends on data in every step towards healthcare system redesign. Technological and service delivery innovations are key components of driving transformation towards high-value health care. The learning health system and network-based thinking are complementary frameworks to the value agenda. Health care and medicine exist in a data-rich environment, and learning about how data can be used to measure and improve value of care for patients is and increasingly essential skill for current and future clinicians., (Copyright 2019, The Author(s).)