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 ...

1. It’s here. Many big healthcare systems claim are “all in” with Lean an essential part of their operating strategy. If this year’s Lean Healthcare Summit is any indication, the Lean movement in ...

In a recent Healthcare Finance article, Sherree Geyer discussed how Lean Six Sigma, which began in auto manufacturing in the 1990s, is becoming more widely used in healthcare. According to Geyer, Lean ...

Lean Healthcare Management adapts principles originally developed in manufacturing to the complex, dynamic environment of health services. This approach aims to reduce waste, improve efficiency and ...

With more than $38 billion spent on healthcare construction this year in the U.S alone, there is a tremendous opportunity for capital projects to incorporate efficiency, safety, and patient-centered ...

Entrepreneurs with ideas for health-related businesse s typically devise their business plans based on discoveries they made in medical laboratories, or problems they needed to solve in their own jobs ...

In the world of manufacturing there is a concept, a way of life, called "lean manufacturing." In implementing lean principles we try to eliminate waste from our processes whether they be manufacturing ...