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Lean healthcare around the world
With the Lean Glogal Connection (LGC) coming up in a few days, we learn more about the Lean Healthcare Initiative.
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Lean healthcare on the front lines
Our coverage of the COVID-19 emergency continues with an article discussing how lean healthcare principles can support and protect the professionals on the front lines of this war.
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Productivity challenges in healthcare management
Understand the structural forces that challenge productivity, quality and safety in healthcare; and why lean management offers a solid path toward a sustainable, high-performance system
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Awakening "human potential" is decisive in healthcare management
Ultimately, despite enormous advances in technology, healthcare is still delivered by human hands
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For a “healthier” strategy
How hospital managers need to think about, structure and deploy strategy to deliver more coordinated and integrated care, strengthening the role of management in healthcare
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The Supply Chain in healthcare: a practical case of applying lean in a public hospital
In this article we describe the application of lean in the supply chain of the country's largest cancer hospital: its particularities, waste and needs in ensuring a continuous chain, with no disruption of patient care, amid the many challenges of public healthcare.
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Staff shortage is a critical issue in healthcare
The shortage of healthcare professionals is a worrying issue for leaders in the sector. The relentless effort to fill open positions and provide quality, safe patient care is a recurring topic on organizations' agendas today.
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Management must also focus on people's mental health
In the lean system, there are a number of concepts and practices aimed at reducing organizational stress and improving mental health
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5 Guiding Principles for Transforming Healthcare
An LGN research group met to collect data and formulated five basic principles for a successful lean transformation in healthcare organizations
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Logistics improvement in healthcare generates gains that can save lives
See how a hospital's lean successes inspired an entire Health Department to introduce changes in its processes that generated gains in cost, time and quality.
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Public health: how lean management can help
See how the “lean in emergencies” project has helped reduce waiting lines in SUS emergency care units and how this impacted the health crisis we are living through.
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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.
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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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