The Toyota Production System (TPS), also known as the Lean management system (Lean), is already helping health care organizations provide high-quality, low-cost care, and it promises to do far more.

Lean management has increasingly become a method of choice for hospitals seeking a creative solution to cost and quality problems. However, its manufacturing roots can make Lean a challenging process ...

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 ...

Patient safety is a top health care priority, but determining how to consistently ensure highest quality can be a complex process that doesn't always provide a clear path toward action. Confronting ...

Many approaches to improving value in our health system focus on specific issues involving care delivery models such as optimizing primary care, coordinating care transitions, facilitating the care of ...

When faced with financial pressures, hospital leaders often try to reduce costs by laying off hospital employees. This is, in a way, understandable, since payroll makes up 60 to 70 percent of a ...

There's a tremendous amount of waste occurring in the healthcare industry. In order to address that waste, organizations are moving to lean management because it exposes what and where these wastes ...

Four years ago, the leaders of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital faced a pressing question as they began planning a new facility to house their neonatal intensive-care unit, outpatient surgery and ...

The concept of “Lean,” which is essentially a team-based approach to continuous improvement focused on eliminating non-value added activities or “waste” from the viewpoint of the customer, has been ...

Applying Lean Six Sigma quality management techniques allows service management professionals to eliminate activities that add no value to customers, decrease costs, eliminate defects, reduce ...