Some challenges facing Lean Thinking 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...

Teaching lean thinking through game: some challenges

Teaching multifaceted concepts such as Lean philosophy to students/employees that have never had any contact with it may be a quite challenging task. The challenge, when teaching students, is to create a context so that they can imagine and understand why Lean philosophy is important and how it can work. On the other hand, when teaching employees/practitioners, the challenge is to translate the...

Lean Thinking and Queue Modelling in Healthcare

Some challenges facing Transactional Memory

Evaluating Transactional Memory: TM’s advantages with respect to locks can be categorized roughly into to two categories: those relating to performance (optimistic execution and fine-grain synchronization) and those relating to programmability (no need to associate a synchronization variable to critical sections, natural composition, fault tolerance, and avoiding priority inversion). To date mu...

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