Becker's Hospital Review: Putting patients first: A characteristic all lean hospitals share
The American Journal of Managed Care: Hospitals’ Strategies to Reduce Costs and Improve Quality: Survey of Hospital Leaders
Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants. Objectives: ...
Hospitals’ Strategies to Reduce Costs and Improve Quality: Survey of Hospital Leaders
Riz Hatton recently moderated a panel discussing quality improvement projects that add the most value to hospitals. The panelists included: – Charleen Tachibana, DNP, RN, Senior Vice President and ...
Five key principles of lean: value, value stream, flow, pull, and perfection, can be applied to any business process that contains wasteful steps, in any industry.
Lean manufacturing has been around for decades. The implementation of lean tools and techniques usually results in impressive gains in efficiency and production. These eight real-life examples show how lean methods improve operational performance and reduce costs.
Lean seeks to improve manufacturing operations via Takt Time, Standardized Work, Continuous Flow, Poka-Yoke, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, and Six Big Losses.
P rofessionals who follow Lean Six Sigma use the data-driven methodology to improve processes by eliminating defects, variations, and waste. They embrace the disciplined, data-driven approach using problem-solving tools, statistical methods, and advanced analytics. The Six Sigma belt levels and certifications are similar to those of martial arts.
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard a lot about Lean healthcare and how it can make everything in your community hospital better – from increasing your clinicians’ satisfaction with your EHR system to ...