Friday, August 3, 2007
Lean and Hospitals
The application of Lean principles has tremendous value outside of the manufacturing sphere of which we at Ultriva typically concern ourselves. The Lean Blog continues to provide excellent coverage of Lean applications in medical system and medical systems in need of Lean applications. His latest is a hospital in Australia having trouble finding beds for emergency room patients. One proposed solution: stopping elective surgery. Seems like there's a problem with the system. Sounds like a little Lean thinking would help. Click here to read more.
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And hospitals are also using kanban systems! There are many of the same challenges that you see in manufacturing... how to tie paper kanban cards into an electronic ordering system, for example.
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