The transformation required of healthcare practices seeking to improve care quality while containing costs could benefit from the application of "lean" management thinking, according to a recent study ...

Across today’s performance-driven healthcare landscape, lean management principles are an increasingly important strategy for enhancing all elements of clinical care delivery. Ongoing process ...

For most healthcare organizations, developing a strategic plan is much easier than executing it. The industry’s complex and evolving regulations and payment systems, changing practice and delivery ...

The purpose of lean management is to sustain a lean production system. Without a lean management system, lean implementation often falters, sometimes fails, and virtually never delivers up to its long ...

Does your physician practice have what it takes to be lean? For decades now, we've heard about manufacturers and retailers running Lean or Six Sigma or whatever you want to call it—putting workplace ...

A concern we have heard repeatedly as the first seven parts of this lean energy management series have circulated through energy companies is, "We seem to have many but not all of the lean principles ...