Lean Healthcare is applying “lean” ideas in healthcare to minimize waste with ongoing process improvement. Learn how to use Lean to improve patient satisfaction and care outcomes while reducing costs.
The rising costs in healthcare and the need for safer and more efficient processes for patients and paying sources are demands to sustainability and survival. Facilities to minimize waste in every process, procedure, and task through an ongoing system of improvements patient satisfaction, scheduling appointments, decreasing overtime work, processing paperwork, and increasing clinic revenues are just a few of the areas where hospitals and other healthcare facilities are implementing lean principles. Undoubtedly, these measures imply a culture change induced by new mobile technologies and represent a profound change in all healthcare chains’ processes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Six_Sigma
https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.18.0193