Description
Book SynopsisThis book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcare that has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation.
Lean principles can help medical laboratories drive up efficiencies and quality without increasing costs or compromising quality. Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories: Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation provides a functional understanding of Lean laboratory processes and quality improvement techniques.
This book is an ideal guide for healthcare executives, leaders, process improvement team members, and inquisitive frontline workers who want to implement and leverage Lean in medical laboratories. Supplying detailed descriptions of Lean too
Table of Contents
Introduction to Lean. Batching vs. Lean Thinking and Flow. Lean and Change Management. Lean Foundation. Basic Lean Concepts and Tools – Assessment and Analyze. Putting It All Together. Implementing Lean in a Healthcare Environment. Executives and Lean. Roles and Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors. What It Means to Have a Lean Culture. Leveraging Lean in the Laboratory.
