Tag: Patient Flow

Patients get appointments for Botox faster than for moles: studyYou might expect that a doctor's office either takes appointments in terms of:FIFO (first into...

'Surgery should be halted' to clear hospital backlog Sub-optimizing decisions are a fairly universal human behavior, regardless of the industry (or continent). Lean teaches us...

Parkland Hospital Deploys Galvanon's MediKiosk(TM) in the ER to Decrease Patient Wait Times It's been discussed here before, how hospitals are just as susceptible as...

U.S. hospitals try to pick up the ER pace You might have seen this sad case of a fatally broken ER on the news over...

The Cincinnati Post - St. E's plan for ER is uniqueThanks to blog reader Karthik for sending this my way. I've read the...

I love books. I'd also love to have more time to read books, or finish books. People often ask me what I'm...

BBC - Radio 4 - In BusinessCOMING MID 2008, A NEW BOOK ON LEAN HEALTHCARE - "Lean Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Quality, and Employee...

Business Week Article Here's a good story about how some doctors offices are trying to reduce backlogs and appointment delays, by adopting lean and operations...

Happy New Year!As 2006 ends, I hope many of you had a GREAT lean year. Please add your comments about your lean accomplishments...

The consulting group I work for is a subsidiary of a very large company, with a large fleet of company vehicles. Driver safety...

Before any of you give a knee jerk reaction about how "pull is good, push is bad" --- I agree with you... pull is...

STLtoday - News - Science & MedicineThis was sent to me by blog reader Joe. He was appalled to read about this and...