Clinical 5S for Healthcare
Clinical 5S for Healthcare

Author: Akio Takahara

Publisher: Enna Products Corporation

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781926537191

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¬From the foremost leading Lean Health Care expert in 5S comes this brilliant, insightful book that will change your workplace forever. It is no secret that problem areas are abundant within the healthcare industry, but what if you could reduce or even eliminate these problems? By utilizing the Lean Kaizen tools that Mr. Takahara has cultivated and perfected in the healthcare industry, you will be able to do just that. Clinical 5S walks you through how to create a better functioning, less problematic workplace and provides you with the tools and methodology for success.“I hope from that bottom of my heart that you will be able to experience positive results such as eliminating medical malpractices, removing wastes in operation, and revitalizing the workplace by implementing Clinical 5S in your workplace.” - Akio Takahara By utilizing Clinical 5S you will see a change in the workplace that encourages creativity, leadership, and inter-departmental coordination from your entire staff. By discussing and eliminating factors such as the reasons human errors occur, excessive inventory, and the root causes of medical errors, your job will become more enjoyable, less wasteful, and infinitely more satisfying.Clinical 5S allows you to:¬ • Reduce Human Errors • Prevent Patient Accidents • Eliminate the Waste of Searching • Better Utilize Available Work Space • Increase Patient and Colleague Satisfaction The first half of this book is designed to explain the true meaning of, and practical methodologies for, 5S implementation. This is achieved by focusing on the principles that are essential for the development of 5S in the healthcare environment. The second half of the book illustrates a series of case studies of actual 5S implementations that have taken place at Takeda General Hospital under Mr. Takahara's direction. Mr. Takahara opens the door for greater understanding by providing you with examples, illustrations, photos, and templates to assist you in your own implementation process.

The Lean Healthcare Handbook
The Lean Healthcare Handbook

Author: Thomas Pyzdek

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3030699013

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The book shows readers exactly how to use Lean tools to design healthcare work that is smooth, efficient, error free and focused on patients and patient outcomes. It includes in-depth discussions of every important Lean tool, including value stream maps, takt time, spaghetti diagrams, workcell design, 5S, SMED, A3, Kanban, Kaizen and many more, all presented in the context of healthcare. For example, the book explains the importance of quick operating room or exam room changeovers and shows the reader specific methods for drastically reducing changeover time. Readers will learn to create healthcare value streams where workflows are based on the pull of customer/patient demand. The book also presents a variety of ways to continue improving after initial Lean successes. Methods for finding the root causes of problems and implementing effective solutions are described and demonstrated. The approach taught here is based on the Toyota Production System, which has been adopted worldwide by healthcare organizations for use in clinical, non-clinical and administrative areas.

Standard Work for Lean Healthcare
Standard Work for Lean Healthcare

Author: Thomas L. Jackson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-07-08

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1439837414

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Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector, Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste, ensuring patient safety, and improving healthcare services. Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare Series, this reader-friendly book builds on the success of the bestselling, Standard Work for the Shopfloor. Standard Work for Lean Healthcare explains how to apply this powerful Lean tool to increase patient safety and reduce the cost of providing healthcare services. It illustrates how standardization can help you establish best practices for performing daily work and why it should be the cornerstone for all of your continuous improvement efforts. Presented in an easy-to-assimilate format, the book describes work in terms of cycle time, work in process, takt time, and layout. It also: Defines the key concepts of standard work and explores the essential elements of a continuous improvement culture Provides detailed guidance through the process of creating, maintaining, and improving standards Illustrates the application of standardization and standard work in healthcare with a range of examples Includes access to helpful websites and further reading on standardization, standard work, the 5S System, and Lean healthcare A joint effort between the Rona Consulting Group and Productivity Press, this book presents invaluable insights from pioneers in Lean thinking to help you avoid common mistakes that can lead to unnecessary wastes of time and resources. Each richly illustrated chapter includes a chapter summary, reflection questions, and margin assists that highlight key terms, how-to steps, and healthcare examples—making this an essential resource for healthcare professionals starting out on their Lean journey.

Lean Hospitals
Lean Hospitals

Author: Mark Graban

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1138031585

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Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term bottom line. This updated edition of a Shingo Research Award recipient begins with an overview of Lean methods. It explains how Lean practices can help reduce various frustrations for caregivers, prevent delays and harm for patients, and improve the long-term health of your organization. The second edition of this book presented new material on identifying waste, A3 problem solving, engaging employees in continuous improvement, and strategy deployment. This third edition adds new sections on structured Lean problem solving methods (including Toyota Kata), Lean Design, and other topics. Additional examples, case studies, and explanations are also included throughout the book. Mark Graban is also the co-author, with Joe Swartz, of the book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Frontline Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements, which is also a Shingo Research Award recipient. Mark and Joe also wrote The Executive’s Guide to Healthcare Kaizen.

A Guide to Lean Healthcare Workflows
A Guide to Lean Healthcare Workflows

Author: Jerry Green

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 0738454400

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Is Lean a fit for your healthcare organization? Various methodologies can be used to help organizations achieve their objectives depending on their criteria: lowest risk of failure, fast to resolution, or lowest cost for deployment. But what every organization should consider is which methodology will have the greatest impact. Lean, a systematic approach to understanding and optimizing processes, may be the fit for your organization. Learn more in this new IBM® RedpaperTM publication, A Guide to Lean Healthcare Workflows, by Jerry Green and Amy Valentini of Phytel (An IBM Company). The paper delves into the five steps of Lean: Define value from the patient's perspective Map the value stream, and identify issues and constraints Remove waste, and make the value flow without interruption Implement the solution, and allow patients to pull value Maintain the gain, and pursue perfection It describes each step in-depth and includes techniques, example worksheets, and materials that can be used during the overall analysis and implementation process. And it provides insights that are derived from the real-world experience of the authors. This paper is intended to serve as a guide for readers during a process-improvement project and is not necessarily intended to be read end-to-end in one sitting. It is written primarily for clinical practitioners to use as a step-by-step guide to lean out clinical workflows without having to rely on complex statistical hypothesis-testing tools. This guide can also be used by clinical or nonclinical practitioners in non-patient-centered workflows. The steps are based on a universal Lean language that uses industry-standard terms and techniques and, therefore, can be applied to almost any process.

Healthcare Kaizen
Healthcare Kaizen

Author: Mark Graban

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 143987297X

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Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or Kaizen, for healthcare professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means "change for the better," as popularized by Masaaki Imai in his 1986 book Kaizen: The Key to Japan‘s Competitive Success and through the books of Norman Bodek, both o

Lean Six Sigma Case Studies in the Healthcare Enterprise
Lean Six Sigma Case Studies in the Healthcare Enterprise

Author: Sandra L. Furterer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1447155831

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This book provides a detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, with a special emphasis on process improvement and operations management in hospitals. The book begins with a description of the Enterprise Performance Excellence (EPE) improvement methodology developed by the author that links several methodologies including systems thinking, theory of constraints, Lean and Six Sigma to provide an enterprise-wide prioritization and value-chain view of health care. The EPE methodology helps to improve flow at the macro or value-chain level, and then identifies Lean Six Sigma detailed improvements that can further improve processes within the value-chain. The book also provides real-world health care applications of the EPE and Lean Six Sigma methodologies that showed significant results on throughput, capacity, operational and financial performance. The Enterprise Performance Excellence methodology is described, and also the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) problem solving approach which is used to solve problems for health care processes as they are applied to real world cases. The case studies include a wide variety of processes and problems including: emergency department throughput improvement; operating room turnaround; operating room organization; CT imaging diagnostic test reduction in an emergency department; linen process improvement; implementing sepsis protocols in an emergency department; critical success factors of an enterprise performance excellence program.

Lean Six Sigma Approaches in Manufacturing, Services, and Production
Lean Six Sigma Approaches in Manufacturing, Services, and Production

Author: Erdem Gerard Tetteh

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1466673214

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"This book presents emerging research-based trends in the area of global quality lean six sigma networks and analysis through an interdisciplinary approach focusing on research, cases, and emerging technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Lean Thinking for Healthcare
Lean Thinking for Healthcare

Author: Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-04

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 1461480361

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A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. An unexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking. Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, management principles, and practical tools for professionals tasked with designing and implementing modern, streamlined healthcare systems or overhauling faulty ones. Focusing on core components such as knowledge management, e-health, patient-centeredness, and collaborative care, chapters illustrate lean concepts in action across specialties (as diverse as nursing, urology, and emergency care) and around the globe. Extended case examples show health systems responding to consumer needs and provider realities with equal efficiency and effectiveness, and improved quality and patient outcomes. Further, contributors tackle the gamut of technological, medical, cultural, and business issues, among them: Initiatives of service-oriented architecture towards performance improvement Adapted lean thinking for emergency departments Lean thinking in dementia care through smart assistive technology Supporting preventive healthcare with persuasive services Value stream mapping for lean healthcare A technology mediated solution to reduce healthcare disparities Geared toward both how lean ideas can be carried out and how they are being used successfully in the real world, Lean Principles for Healthcare not only brings expert knowledge to healthcare managers and health services researchers but to all who have an interest in superior healthcare delivery.

Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey
Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey

Author: Joan Wellman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2010-12-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1439828660

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Every healthcare organization can learn from Seattle Children‘s continuous improvement process, but this book is not an operator‘s manual. Instead, it is a challenge to everyone concerned with healthcare to reexamine deeply held assumptions. While it is commonly believed that improved quality, access, and safety, and an improved bottom line are mut