Already faced with pressure to provide cost-effective patient care, leaders in the healthcare industry saw their challenges quickly compounded when the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe in 2020. But one …
While there have been issues with distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine at the political level, the complex supply chain that gets the shots from manufacturer to healthcare workers has been …
Lean Six Sigma can help medical device companies do a better job at identifying and putting corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) into place. That could provide a big step forward …
Few strategies have more impact on the effectiveness of a healthcare operation than training staff in Lean Six Sigma. They already have expertise in their clinical duties. But learning about …
A Veterans Affairs hospital in Kentucky has improved patient satisfaction by employing Lean Six Sigma techniques, providing another example of how process improvement is having an impact on healthcare. The …
The healthcare industry is perfectly situated to benefit from continuous process improvement. Rapid growth in the industry, the use of innovative technology to improve patient care and higher standards demanded …
Led by Green Belt, Naval Team Wins Award for Improving Healthcare for Children
The military continues to lead the way among government agencies in putting Lean Six Sigma to work in making operations more effective and efficient. The latest example comes from Hawaii, …
In November 2018, Physician’s Weekly published an article about quality improvement initiatives, and addressed why they can be hard to implement in clinical settings (specifically, according to the article, it’s …
In October 2018, three spinal surgeons published an article detailing how they applied the Plan-Do-Study-Act methodology to the surgeries they performed. All three praised the methodology for offering a systematic, …
