C11720: Process Improvement in Healthcare Using Lean
Novelty:
This is a two day interactive training session that equips representatives with Lean for Healthcare tools and techniques they can use to teach the Lean course at their home institution.
Value Proposition:
The ability to eliminate waste in healthcare delivery presents the opportunity for professionals to streamline their business. Further, the identification and elimination of wasteful practices would decrease expenses, allowing funds, as well as time, to be redistributed to other areas as needed. The Lean for Healthcare course is unique in that its content has been adapted specifically for healthcare professionals, using healthcare exercises and relevant examples. The developers of the Lean for Healthcare course would teach representatives to administer this course at their own institutions. Key Features of this course are:
- Reduces waste in terms of money, time, and resources
- Easy to learn and apply
- Major benefits of this method include reduced patient wait times, faster processing of medications, decreased risk of medication errors, less inventory, and more patient-focused processes
- Lean can be applied to virtually any system where waste exists
Technical Details:
This training program would provide representatives to teach Lean for Healthcare effectively to their own healthcare staff. This unique offering allows participants to focus on learning the tools, systems, and principles of Lean rather than spending time and effort trying to determine how Lean might apply to healthcare. The course is designed around a very unique and creative hands-on Emergency Department Simulation exercise. This novel approach to Lean can improve healthcare processes and eliminating waste, both yielding a better patient experience, as well as decreasing expenses.
Looking for Partners:
To develop and commercialize the program as a two day interactive training session on how to provide the Lean for Healthcare course.
Stage of Development:
Commercialization
Data Availability:
N/A
Publications/Associated Cases:
Not available at this time.
