Expert training for healthcare, with emphasis on the diagnostic laboratory.

Expert training for healthcare, with emphasis on the diagnostic laboratory.

Lean

LFH A3 101 Healthcare Unit 4: Establishing the Target and Brainstorming Solutions

It is common for teams to start an improvement effort by discussing what needs to be done before they fully understand what is happening–the A3 method ensures that finding solutions is done in a way that ensures the real problems are the ones that are solved.  Once the current condition has been described and understood, […]

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LFH A3 101 Healthcare Unit 6: Controlling, Spreading and Celebrating

This final lecture explains how to hold your improvements in place until a better way of doing work is found.  It would be wonderful if each improvement effort was final and no further efforts were needed, but in the real world, where conditions change daily, continual improvement is the only possible course of action.  Using

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LFH A3 101 Healthcare Case Study

Please follow the link below and read/study the article about an A3 project in a Heathcare IT environment. Zeng, J., Zhang, J. (2014) “Instill lean thinking into healthcare IT services.” International Journal of Business and Social Research; 4(8). Retrieved from https://thejournalofbusiness.org/index.php/site/article/view/568. When you have completed reading and considering the case study, answer the following questions.

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LFH VSM 101 Healthcare Unit 1: Measuring Value

This unit covers waste and three essential value metrics: Takt Time, Cycle Time, Percent Efficiency Understanding and seeing waste is fundamental part of value stream analysis.  In this unit waste in healthcare is defined and examples provided. Methods for measuring flow, value and waste are essential for analyzing process performance.  The three critical performance metrics

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