Article Revised: March 28, 2019 We’ve recently discussed how Lean Six Sigma can make a difference in the healthcare industry by reducing wait times in the emergency department...
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15Mar
Standard Diabetes Treatment Makes Things Worse
...years. All showed that the treatments were either worthless, or worse than worthless. And most have been largely ignored by the healthcare profession. It’s anyone’s guess when the...
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11Jun
DMAIC and Covid-19
...the context of a Lean Six Sigma improvement activity the stated goal of the improvement activity was to reduce the peak number of covid-19 cases so that the...
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23Jul
TeamSTEPPS and Lean Six Sigma Training Go Hand In Hand
Article Revised: March 28, 2019 In the healthcare world, improving quality of care and optimizing patient outcomes is paramount. Clinical leaders are thus regularly seeking out tools to...
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20Apr
Dear Doctor K
...it’s necessarily an oversimplification. As far as applications in healthcare, consider the randomized clinical trial. These are simple Designed Experiments. Usually they are one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) experiments that attempt...
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13Nov
Lean Six Sigma in Hospitals Help Patients Receive Faster Care
...align the people around the techniques. According to the August 2012 FierceHealthcare article, “Lean leadership in healthcare: What does it take?” …in addition to cutting costs, Lean initiatives...
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20May
The Physician as Magician
...school that it is the individual doctor that makes all of the difference in healthcare. Of course, the physician is a critical component of success. However, the physician...
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25Mar
Caution! Your Hospital Stay Could Be Fatal
...I’ve worked in healthcare enough to know that there’s no reason that our healthcare can’t be delivered with at least as high a quality level as a beer...
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11May
Are the Lock-Downs Successful?
...meetings, projects and even individual analyses. It also applies to the lock downs. For example, is the lock down is solving for … Flattening the curve. The healthcare...
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08Sep
Ellis Medicine Launches Lean Six Sigma Program
Article Revised: March 28, 2019 In the ever-changing world of healthcare, hospitals and clinics must be willing to analyze and adapt their practices in order to provide the...
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