Lean thinking to mind the gap in healthcare management

Lean thinking to mind the gap in healthcare management.

We congratulate your team for your initiative to improve healthcare delivery to stroke patients1. The participation of multidisciplinary staff working at Gemba (where the work is done) is an excellent approach, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of care delivery, anticipating threats and looking for opportunities. We agree entirely with your views on quick-fixes, which may create work-arou...

Lean Thinking and Queue Modelling in Healthcare

Some challenges facing Lean Thinking in healthcare

While improvement methods have delivered higher efficiency and better quality products, the question of applicability in healthcare is still clouded by uncertainty. Traditionally, there have been opposing views: on the one hand promoting large-scale industrial-type improvement to bring healthcare into the modern era and, on the other, arguing that people are not motor cars and that simplistic a...

Lean Thinking in Healthcare Sector: Experience from an Indian Hospital

Experience of implementing lean thinking (LT) in a multispecialty hospital located in southern part of India is discussed. Case hospital was chosen and problems associated with various processes were identified and they were mapped to seven wastes. Solutions based on lean principles/practices were implemented and improvements were evaluated through performance

Improving Project Management with Lean Thinking?

In the new business economy, project management has become a central way for undertaking several of the business activities. One of the increasing and most significant concerns with projects is that, projects are behind schedule, over budget and show unsatisfactory performance in terms quality and customer satisfaction. In the last few decades the manufacturing industry successfully improved qu...