Lean Saude

O Lean na Saúde (Lean Healthcare) coloca o paciente no centro de tudo. O objetivo é entregar o melhor cuidado, com o menor tempo de espera e o menor custo, garantindo segurança e qualidade.

Hospitais ao redor do mundo utilizam o Lean para reduzir o tempo de pronto-socorro, eliminar erros de medicação, otimizar o uso de salas cirúrgicas e humanizar o atendimento.

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What queues reveal about healthcare management

By integrating the stages of care, better organizing resources and removing interruptions that prolong the patient journey, lean management helps reduce waits, relieve team overload and deliver care with more safety, agility and respect

By Flávio Battaglia, Paloma Rubinato Perez

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A lean hospital Pharmacy

Learn how adopting the lean system in the Pharmacy of Hospital Estadual Américo Brasiliense (HEAB) standardized processes, reduced errors, cut time, avoided unnecessary purchases and optimized handling

By Lean Institute Brasil

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Lean leadership: concepts, practices and applications at a Hospital in Foz do Iguaçu

By Lean Institute Brasil

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UMass Memorial Health's transformation journey

When Dr. Eric Dickson took over as CEO of UMass Memorial Health in 2013, the health system was at risk of default. He established a management system that engaged more than 15,000 employees in daily improvement, generating 132,000 ideas and achieving the highest bond rating in 35 years.

By George Taninecz

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Pets and management: Modern Pets' lean journey to ‘scale’ veterinary service

How the “Modern Pet” clinic, facing an expanding sector that demands efficient management, is beginning a lean system implementation aimed at enabling a monthly subscription model, standardizing care with digital protocols and raising clinical effectiveness and pet owner satisfaction

By Larissa Goto Sala, Lívia Romeiro, Stela Maris Coelho

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What color is it?

A team from a Scottish university has developed a visual control for body fluids that is solving a complex problem in healthcare.

By Stephen Yorkstone, Hazel McPhillips

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An ICU “of Love”... and of Lean!

How lean system concepts and practices are tackling and reversing increases in hospital infections, staff absences and transfers, and other adversities in the intensive care units of Hospital de Amor (HA) , in Barretos (SP)

By Lean Institute Brasil

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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

By Flávio Battaglia, Carlos Frederico Pinto, Paloma Rubinato Perez

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Building a learning hospital

NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – At GHU Paris (Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris), leadership combines strategy with gemba visits, problem solving using the 5C method and cross-functional learning to create a resilient, people-centered improvement culture in psychiatric care.

By Catherine Chabiron

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How we gradually built our Continuous Improvement model

INTERVIEW – Cleveland Clinic has been on a lean journey for a few years. In this interview, the Director of Improvement and the Director of Nursing talk about continuous improvement, metrics and sustainable results.

By Lisa Yerianis, Meredith Foxxis

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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

By Flávio Battaglia

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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

By Flávio Battaglia, Paloma Rubinato Perez

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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.

By Paloma Rubinato Perez, Cristina Prata Amendola

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“New pandemic” calls for stepping up lean management in healthcare

Why organizations in the sector are facing different but equally complex contexts as in recent years; and how lean management can provide definitive answers for the evolution of care

By Flávio Battaglia, Paloma Rubinato Perez

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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.

By Paloma Rubinato Perez, Carlos Frederico Pinto, Flávio Battaglia

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Quality of care for pregnant women stands out in the “Sífilis Não” collaborative

Learn the views of some participants on the "Sífilis Não" collaborative in this exclusive interview with Lean Institute Brasil.

By Maria Aparecida Alves Gaudio, Mário Vinicius Canfild Grendene, Silvio Vieira de Oliveira Junior

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How to improve care coordination for pregnant women with syphilis in UBSs: a step-by-step guide with an example

Understand the step-by-step process for establishing a management system so that pregnant women attending Primary Health Care Units are tested and treated for syphilis, thus trying to prevent the spread of congenital syphilis in Brazil.

By Carlos Frederico Pinto, Flávio Battaglia, Marise Reis de Freitas, Paloma Rubinato Perez, Paulo Borem

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Using lean to discharge patients before noon

This nurse-led experiment at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona is proving successful in getting more patients discharged on time and avoiding surgery cancellations.

By Equipe Hospital Clinic

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A successful experience with virtual healthcare

The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the use of virtual care worldwide. In South Australia, it was implemented in urgent care.

By Pamela Everingham, Darren Daff, Denise Bennett

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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

By Flávio Battaglia, Alice Lee, Carlos Frederico Pinto, Cristina Fontcuberta, Denise Bennett, John Shook, Oriol Cuatrecasas, Roberto Priolo, Vyacheslav Boltrukevich

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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.

By Equipe do Instituto de Oncologia do Vale, Equipe de Logística da Secretaria de Saúde da Cidade de São José dos Campos

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Creating a model UBS

This UBS (primary health care unit) hopes to become a model for other units. This is how lean thinking can spread through health systems

By William Carvalho Barbosa, Carlos Frederico Pinto, Italo Cristiano Ribeiro, Leila de Ameida Reis, Renata Cristina Silva Pinto, Stela Maris Coelho

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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 .

By Margarete Correa, Carlos Frederico Pinto, Danilo Stanzani, Elitânia Pontes

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Kaizen week drives quality improvement at a medical equipment company

How Laerdal Medical managed to enthusiastically restart its lean journey with the help of a good old kaizen week.

By Eivind Reke, Gert Frick, Torbjørn Gjerdevik

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Investing in “multiskilling” minimizes the impacts of the pandemic — and much more

For companies that had not been implementing multiskilling, this is the moment; for those already betting on the strategy, it is time to expand it

By Flávio Augusto Picchi

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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.

By Flávio Battaglia

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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.

By Paloma Rubinato Perez

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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.

By Paloma Rubinato Perez

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Observing Covid-19 vaccination at the gemba

On his first gemba walk in months, the author observes the Covid-19 vaccination process at a medical practice in Wales and reflects on how lean it is.

By Dave Brunt

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Becoming a role model

This hospital in Argentina harnessed the power of lean thinking to improve patient care even during the pandemic and earn international recognition.

By Javier Sala Mercado

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A hospital CEO on lean and the Covid resurgence

As South Africa battles a second wave of Covid-19, the CEO of a hospital group shares some of the lessons learned so far and how lean thinking is helping the organization withstand it.

By Norman Faull

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Our experience teaching lean at SulAmérica

What does it take to support a lean transformation? The author reflects on the role of the lean team in the turnaround of Brazilian insurer SulAmérica.

By Luciana Gomes

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Healthcare Management: Strategies for coping with COVID and the sector's recovery

By Paloma Rubinato Perez, Flávio Battaglia

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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.

By Flávio Battaglia, Alice Lee, Carlos Frederico Pinto, Cristina Fontcuberta, Oriol Cuatrecasas, Vyacheslav Boltrukevich

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Lean healthcare practitioners talk about fighting the coronavirus

How do lean healthcare organizations respond to the most critical stage of the epidemic? We asked three hospitals in Catalonia and Toledo to share their experiences.

By Oriol Cuatrecasas, Cristina Fontcuberta

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What the Covid virus can teach us about the Toyota Way

By Jeffrey K. Liker

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