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Electronic Medical Records and Nursing Informatics

WEBFor decades, professionals in the field of health informatics, which is an advantage of electronic medical records, have sought to improve efficacy of healthcare systems using …

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Applying the PDCA Cycle in Healthcare: An Overview

WEBOctober 15, 2017. The PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle is one of the most commonly used tools for structuring the work of an organization nowadays, and it has found its way to …

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How are Check Sheets Being Used in Healthcare

WEBAnalyzing Treatment Results in a Systematic Manner. A great use for check sheets in healthcare is for keeping track of a patient’s status, marking different …

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Applying the Theory of Constraints to Healthcare

WEBThe theory of constraints can be a very powerful tool for transforming the workflow at a healthcare facility and ensuring that things run much more smoothly and …

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Value-Added Time in Healthcare and Its Importance

WEBValue-added time is an extremely important concept to study if you’re trying to optimize the flow of any process or system of processes, and it has special value in …

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7 Wastes of the Medical Billing Process

WEBThe medical billing process and processing and revenue stream in health care is particularly problematic, complex and expensive. More than a decade ago, a …

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Lean for Service Operations: Improving Healthcare

WEBIn December 2009, Allison Arieff wrote a story in The New York Times about the health-care giant’s attempts to rethink and redesign every aspect of its operations, …

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Lean Healthcare and Comments from Atul Gawande

WEBAnother sign this is the case is the unsustainable growth in the cost of health care. Medical performance tends to follow a bell curve, with a wide gap between …

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Lean Healthcare: How to Engage Employees in Lean at the …

WEBNebraska Methodist Health System employs over 5000 with three hospitals (Methodist Hospital, Methodist Women’s Hospital and Methodist Jennie Edmundson …

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Lean Optimization: The 5s Cure for the EHR

WEBCan we find a cure for the EHR (electronic health record) through lean optimization and the 5S? The EHR is a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. It …

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Statistical Process Control Methods in Healthcare Settings: An …

WEBStatistical process control is a tool with multiple applications, and it can easily be adapted to various environments. When it comes to healthcare, it’s one of the best …

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5 Key Lean Six Sigma Tools Used in Improving Healthcare Wait …

WEB1. Triaging. Correctly identifying cases that need more attention is often the biggest issue to address in a typical healthcare facility, and this is where the biggest …

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Applying PDSA to Patient Safety

WEBWhen applied correctly, it can be very beneficial in both the short and the long term, but of course, it’s also not a magical solution that can automatically solve …

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Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center

WEBHealth care systems have been slow to recognize the potential applications of methods refined on industrial shop floors to their warm and fuzzy, people-centric …

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Data Mining Applications in Healthcare

WEBHealthcare facilities are adopting Electronic Health Records (EHR) more rapidly than ever. EHRs allow healthcare facilities to improve quality and boost efficiency …

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A3 Problem Solving and Its Use in Healthcare

WEBThe A3 problem solving method originated at Toyota, but since then it’s spread all over the world and to many different industries. It’s flexible enough to be …

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How to Use Six Sigma to Reduce Billing Errors in Healthcare

WEBIn order to decrease the costs associated with healthcare, billing processes are investigated in order to identify areas where defects occur and determine where Six …

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Lean Healthcare Time and Motion Study [video]

WEBThe Hospital Nurse Time and Motion Study is a great read – many elements of Lean Thinking in the article. Studies like this and changes made to patient care will …

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3 Ways to Increase Efficiency in Healthcare with Kanban

WEBHere are three ways kanban can help make the healthcare industry more efficient. Through the use of technology such as software, barcodes and RFID tags, …

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Spaghetti Diagram Example Healthcare: Unappetizing Meal

WEBA Spaghetti Diagram Example Healthcare – is a simple visual tool to demonstrate the flow of material, flow of information, and flow of money in a process. …

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Lean Healthcare and Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare

WEBLean Six Sigma Asks Tough Questions. In a hospital or healthcare facility, this question creates a great deal of concern across all levels of the organization. …

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PDCA and DMAIC Comparison: Similarities and Differences

WEBIndeed, the PDCA framework of Lean allows for the involvement of everybody, whereas DMAIC of Six Sigma requires specialized and trained people, often …

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