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We talked to Helen Zak of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value about the challenges the healthcare industry is facing
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We talked to Helen Zak of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value about the challenges the healthcare industry is facing

INTERVIEW – At the last European Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, we sat down with Helen Zak for a few minutes to discuss the state of change in the healthcare sector.

  • Lean management
  • Healthcare
  • 3 min read
  • 11/30/2015
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Lean Healthcare: reducing waiting times for cancer care
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Lean Healthcare: reducing waiting times for cancer care

This project, part of a citywide effort to improve patient flow, led to impressive results in waiting times for access to cancer care. See the potential of this new management model in healthcare .

  • Lean strategy
  • Healthcare
  • Margarete Correa
  • 5 min read
  • 4/7/2022
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Lean Healthcare: the impact of reducing time in an oncology patient's journey
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Lean Healthcare: the impact of reducing time in an oncology patient's journey

What we learn from the precious "value of time" in Pedro's journey.

  • Continuous improvement
  • Healthcare
  • Paloma Rubinato Perez
  • 11 min read
  • 8/31/2021
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5 guiding principles for transforming healthcare
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5 guiding principles for transforming healthcare

The Lean Healthcare Initiative team presents the results of its research and provides five guidelines for successfully transforming healthcare organizations.

  • Lean strategy
  • Healthcare
  • Flávio Battaglia
  • 1 min read
  • 6/5/2020
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The real secret to success with the A3 process: No standard, no problem? Actually, it is a big problem

Part three of a seven-part series, “The real secret to success with the A3 process”. Learn how the A3 process goes beyond problem solving and the other facets of the practice you must understand. Read the previous articles: part one - It is as much a social process as a technical problem-solving process and part 2 - PDCA is actually CA-PDCA – and it is the CA that makes the PD work .

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The real secret to success with the A3 process: PDCA is actually CA-PDCA – and it is the CA that makes the PD work

Part two of a seven-part series, “The real secret to success with the A3 process”. Learn how the A3 process goes beyond problem solving and the other facets of the practice you must understand. Read part one, " It is as much a social process as a technical problem-solving process "

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