Lean Six Sigma For The Healthcare Practice

Author : Roderick A. Munro
Publisher : Quality Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780873891578

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Lean Six Sigma for the Healthcare Practice by Roderick A. Munro Pdf

This book is for those in healthcare practices whose customers/payers may be encouraging or requiring them to use Lean Six Sigma in the workplace, or to simply improve the way healthcare is being provided. The book is intended to be a basic, easy-to-read, quick and handy reference to the process improvement topics that are so important in healthcare. The first seven sections of the book cover the basics of Lean Six Sigma (“What is Lean Six Sigma?” through a “Lean Six Sigma Road Map for the Practice”) and how it can be applied and implemented in the Practice. The remainder of the pocket guide gives a brief description of the various tools and methodologies used in Lean Six Sigma. Each discussion has purposefully been kept short and simple to allow for basic understanding. Also included are tips of how or when to use the tool.

Author : Thomas K. Ross
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781284170757

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Applying Lean Six Sigma in Health Care by Thomas K. Ross Pdf

Written to address the growing demand for Lean Six Sigma expertise, this text provides a step-by-step Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process, that describes how to use the tools appropriate for each phase and provide data where tools can be practiced by students. Applying Lean Six Sigma in Health Care trains students on performance improvement techniques and current terminology so that they will be prepared to conduct Lean Six Sigma projects in large health care systems and support the physicians and nurses running these projects. With a focus on application, students learn and utilize the DMAIC process, by applying it to an improvement project that is carried through the text.

Author : Erdem Gerard Tetteh,Benedict M. Uzochukwu
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466673212

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Lean Six Sigma Approaches in Manufacturing, Services, and Production by Erdem Gerard Tetteh,Benedict M. Uzochukwu Pdf

"This book presents emerging research-based trends in the area of global quality lean six sigma networks and analysis through an interdisciplinary approach focusing on research, cases, and emerging technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Frank Cohen
Publisher : Greenbranch Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0976834391

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Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice by Frank Cohen Pdf

To help medical practices increase profitability without cutting costs or boosting revenues, Greenbranch Publishing announces a new book by Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Frank Cohen and Practice Management Expert Owen Dahl: Mastering Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice - Improving Profitability by Improving Processes. For the first time, this new book translates Lean Six Sigma principles and tools specifically for the real-world medical practice environment. Drawing on his involvement with over 2,000 medical practices, author and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Frank Cohen empowers practices - and their advisors - to use 24 process improvement tools to boost efficiency so more of the revenues that come in go directly to the bottom line. What types of improvements can practices make? Learn how to use analytics to identify inconsistent behavior by payers - so practices can hold payers' feet to the fire. See how process improvement can help practices reduce denials by upwards of 50%. Use these techniques to improve both patient satisfaction and staff morale. Learn how to eliminate bottlenecks in your practice and use metrics to make smart practice improvement decisions. Over the past 20 years, Lean and Six Sigma approaches have created profit breakthroughs for other types of businesses. Cohen and Dahl bring this methodology to health care providers, whittling down the myriad of traditional Lean Six Sigma tools to only those that matter most to their practices. Add Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice to your "must-read-now" bookshelf and take the first steps toward improving everything from patient visit cycle time to, A/R to staff and patient satisfaction and morale to compliance.

Author : Sandra L. Furterer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447155836

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Lean Six Sigma Case Studies in the Healthcare Enterprise by Sandra L. Furterer Pdf

This book provides a detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, with a special emphasis on process improvement and operations management in hospitals. The book begins with a description of the Enterprise Performance Excellence (EPE) improvement methodology developed by the author that links several methodologies including systems thinking, theory of constraints, Lean and Six Sigma to provide an enterprise-wide prioritization and value-chain view of health care. The EPE methodology helps to improve flow at the macro or value-chain level, and then identifies Lean Six Sigma detailed improvements that can further improve processes within the value-chain. The book also provides real-world health care applications of the EPE and Lean Six Sigma methodologies that showed significant results on throughput, capacity, operational and financial performance. The Enterprise Performance Excellence methodology is described, and also the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) problem solving approach which is used to solve problems for health care processes as they are applied to real world cases. The case studies include a wide variety of processes and problems including: emergency department throughput improvement; operating room turnaround; operating room organization; CT imaging diagnostic test reduction in an emergency department; linen process improvement; implementing sepsis protocols in an emergency department; critical success factors of an enterprise performance excellence program.

Author : D.H. Stamatis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466500716

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Essentials for the Improvement of Healthcare Using Lean & Six Sigma by D.H. Stamatis Pdf

Essentials for the Improvement of Healthcare Using Lean & Six Sigma is all about real and immediate quality improvement. Written by D.H. Stamatis, a renowned expert in organizational development and quality, the book addresses concerns that can be ameliorated with minimal government intervention. Detailing immediate paths for improvement fundamental to primary care, hospitals, and managed care, the book: Introduces much-needed mechanics of change, including transitioning from hierarchical groups to interactive inclusionary teams Focuses on customer satisfaction as a key indicator of quality Explains how Lean and Six Sigma tools can be readily applied to healthcare Spotlights primary care, including how to define and redesign its process and develop better metrics Presents IT applications that will improve billing, documentation, and patient care Examines Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria as it applies to healthcare Illustrates quality improvements and best practices through real world case studies Includes a companion CD with Six Sigma forms and formulas, Lean improvement tools, and other quality tools and worksheets Whether you think advances in technology and medicine, coupled with freedom of choice, makes the U.S. healthcare system the best in the world, or whether you believe growing costs, regulatory morass, and a tort-obsessed culture drop it to the bottom; it is evident that the processes currently employed and the subsequent defensive medicine philosophy that has resulted will not be able to meet the future demands of our aging society. Through Six Sigma and Lean, this text moves the focus from reactive controls to the proactive efficiency required to implement real and sustainable quality improvements that will allow us to forge a system that is all about wellness.

Author : Jay Arthur
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781259641091

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Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom Line, Second Edition by Jay Arthur Pdf

Simple Steps to Improve Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom Line A Doody's Core Title for 2020! This thoroughly revised resource shows, step-by-step, how to simplify, streamline, analyze, and optimize healthcare performance using tested Lean Six Sigma and change management techniques. Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals, Second Edition, follows the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge. The book fully explains how to improve operations and quality of care while dramatically reducing costs—often in just five days. Real-world case studies from major healthcare institutions illustrate successful implementations of Lean Six Sigma. Coverage includes: • Lean Six Sigma for hospitals, emergency departments, operating rooms, medical imaging facilities, nursing units, pharmacies, and ICUs • Patient flow and quality • Clinical staff • Order and claims accuracy • Billing and collection • Defect and medical error reduction • Excel power tools for Lean Six Sigma • Data mining and analysis • Process flow charts and control charts • Laser-focused process innovation • Statistical tools for Lean Six Sigma • Planning and implementation

Author : Sandra L. Furterer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 1439837600

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Lean Six Sigma for the Healthcare Enterprise by Sandra L. Furterer Pdf

Based on the editor’s experience developing and deploying the Enterprise Performance Excellence (EPE) program at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Lean Six Sigma for the Healthcare Enterprise: Methods, Tools, and Applicationsdetails real-world Lean Six Sigma tools and DMAIC problem-solving methodologies that can improve the healthcare industry. A detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the healthcare industry, the book describes the Enterprise Performance Excellence Improvement methodology, which provides an enterprise-wide prioritization and value-chain view of healthcare. The book offers real-world healthcare applications that show significant results on throughput, capacity, operational and financial performance, and detailed examples of how Lean Six Sigma tools were applied. These examples demonstrate Six Sigma, DMAIC, and EPE problem solving approaches to healthcare and physician medical practices. With case studies that illustrate how the tools integrate to improve the processes and eliminate root causes of problems, the book covers: Pareto analysis Cause and effect analysis Failure mode and effects analysis Statistical process control SIPOC Process flowcharts Project management tools Lean tools such as 5S, 8 wastes and 5 Whys Theory of Constraints bottleneck reduction and systems thinking The case studies include a wide variety of processes and problems including emergency department throughput improvement, OR case on-time starts and turnaround, applying 5S to improve hospital department organization, diagnostic testing process improvement, linen loss reduction and sepsis protocol design. The book presents a step-by-step walk-through of real-world Lean Six Sigma projects that healthcare providers struggling with shrinking revenues and rising costs can use to improve operations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bookboon
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788776817688

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Lean Six Sigma: Research and Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tina Agustiady,Adedeji B. Badiru
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466514249

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Sustainability by Tina Agustiady,Adedeji B. Badiru Pdf

Although most agree that Lean Six Sigma is here to stay, they also agree that learning how to sustain the results seems problematic at best and unattainable at worst. Reverting to the old way of doing things is inevitable if sustainability measures are not a part of the methodology. Currently there are no standard resource on how to be sustainable or on using statistical techniques and practices. Until now. Sustainability: Utilizing Lean Six Sigma Techniques not only examines how to use particular lean six sigma tools, but how to sustain results that make companies profitable with continuous improvement. The book demonstrates how to use the Six Sigma methodology to make process-focused decisions that will achieve the goals of sustainability and allow organizations to gain true benefits from process improvements. It covers sustainability and metrics, Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma tools, sustainability project management, sustainability modeling, sustainable manufacturing and operations, decision making, and sustainability logistics. These tools help sustain results while keeping organizations competitive regardless of economic conditions. While continuous improvement techniques look good on paper, the implementation of the techniques can become difficult and challenging to maintain. Without utilizing Lean Six Sigma tools and leading the change, companies will become less and less marketable and profitable. This book supplies a blueprint on achieving sustainable results from high-quality improvements and making organizations competitive and first in class in their marketplace.

Author : Donald Lighter
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780763772147

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Basics of Health Care Performance Improvement by Donald Lighter Pdf

Building on the success of his previous text, Quality Management in Health Care: Principles and Methods, Dr. Lighters new book, Basics of Performance Improvement; A Lean Six Sigma Approach, is an ideal first course for students learning the basics of Lean Six Sigma, and its application in improving health care quality and patient outcomes.

Author : Todd Sperl,Rob Ptacek,Jayant Trewn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 1467516996

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Practical Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare by Todd Sperl,Rob Ptacek,Jayant Trewn Pdf

Author : Jay Arthur
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780071753265

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Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Simple Steps to Fast, Affordable, and Flawless Healthcare by Jay Arthur Pdf

DELIVER FASTER, BETTER, AND CHEAPER HEALTHCARE IN AS FEW AS FIVE DAYS 4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "The main purpose is to present simple steps to help hospitals start getting faster, better, and cheaper in five days or less while achieving the goal of fast, affordable, and flawless healthcare. Healthcare has many opportunities for improvement and the use of Lean Six Sigma concepts can make a dramatic impact. This book provides the basic information to do that."--Doody's Review Service Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Simple Steps to Fast, Affordable, Flawless Healthcare explains how to use tested Lean Six Sigma methods and tools to rapidly improve hospital operations and quality of care and reduce costs. These proven strategies follow the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge, examining key aspects of patient flow and quality. The trail of billing and collections is also followed to discover and eliminate cash flow leaks. This practical guide emphasizes both the clinical and operational sides to reduce the "three demons of quality"--delay, defects, and deviation. Real-world case studies from major hospitals illustrate successful implementations of Lean Six Sigma. Coverage Includes: Achieving a faster, better hospital in five days--emergency department, door-to-balloon time, operating room, medical imaging, lab, nursing unit, clinical staff, pharmacy, order accuracy, diagnosis, ICU Lean for accelerated patient flow Reducing medical errors with Six Sigma Creating a more profitable hospital in five days by reducing denied, rejected, and appealed claims Six Sigma for hospitals Excel power tools for Lean Six Sigma Identifying improvement projects through data mining and analysis Sustaining improvement using control charts Laser-focused process innovation Statistical tools for Lean Six Sigma Implementing Lean Six Sigma

Author : Richard Morrow
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439895375

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Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement in Healthcare by Richard Morrow Pdf

Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement in Healthcare supplies step-by-step guidance on how to use the 3Ms of change leadership to improve healthcare processes. Complete with forms, templates, and healthcare case studies, it illustrates the proper application of the 3Ms. It weaves stories throughout the book of role models who have succeeded, as w

Author : Todd Sperl,Robb Ptacek,Jayant Trewn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989803007

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The Practical Lean Six Sigma Pocket Guide for Healthcare by Todd Sperl,Robb Ptacek,Jayant Trewn Pdf