Articles
- Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs—and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists
- Health Leaders Media, Go Lean: Don’t be Scared, It’s Only Change! In this Part 2 section, they look at how to approach “going Lean” with your team.
- Thinking Lean In Healthcare Thinking Lean in Healthcare explains that lean thinking in a healthcare environment…
- Using lean methods to improve OR turnover times | AORN Journal …Health Care Industry… The goal of lean health care is to approach processes with a keen . . .
- Lean Health Care Solutions from NC State University IES NC State University IES provides Lean Health Care solutions using lean manufacturing methodology
- Lean Health brings manufacturing efficiency to health care … An initiative to make Minnesota hospitals more efficient is spreading across the state. It’s called Lean Health. . .
- Lean, manufacturing, healthcare, solutions, principles, health … “By adopting Lean, health care organizations can improve the quality of care and … Lean principles give health care professionals an opportunity to both …
- Lean Concepts in Healthcare – Turning the Heat on Wastage
- Healthcare Streamlines using “Lean Thinking” Approach
- July 15th Pittsburgh Regional Hospital Uses Toyota Production System (Lean) to Improve Procedures
- Fixing Healthcare from the Inside – Harvard Business Review
- Lean Toward Lean: Clear Thinking For Better Health(Care) – Maya Talisman Frost
- Lean Healthcare? It Works! – Patricia Panchak
- Industry Week Article on Lean in Healthcare
- Industry Week Article Curing Healthcare Cost Blues Using Lean
- CNN Reports that Lean Practitioners Are In Demand…Make More Money
- Power of Lean in the Laboratory: A Clinical Application
- Lean as a Learning System in a Hospital Ward
Books
- 5S for Healthcare (Lean Tools for Healthcare Series) by Thomas Lindsay Jackson
- The Toyota Way by Jeffery K. Liker
- Solutions to the Healthcare Quality Crisis: Cases and Examples of Lean Six … by Søren Bisgaard
- Transforming health care management: integrating technology strategies by Ivan J. Barrick (page 174)
- The Toyota Way to Healthcare Excellence: Increase Efficiency and Improve Quality with Lean by John R Black, David Miller
- Using The Pittsburgh Way To Efficient Healthcare by Naida Grunden
- A3 Problem Solving for Healthcare: A Practical Method for Eliminating Waste by Cindy Jimmerson (page ix)
- The Joint Commission Lean Thinking
- Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Distance and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win by Steven Spear
- Lean-Six Sigma for Healthcare, Second Edition: A Senior Leader Guide to Improving Cost and Throughput by Chip Caldwell
- Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes – a practical survival guide by Mark Eaton
- Applying Lean in Healthcare: A Collection of International Case Studies by Joe Aherne
- Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the Worlds Most Admired Service Organizations by Leonard Berry
- Value Stream Management for Lean Healthcare by Don Tapping
- Lean-Six Sigma for Healthcare Second Edition: A Senior Leader Guide to Improving Cost and Throughput by Greg Butler
- The Nun and the Bureaucrat/Good News…How Hospitals Heal Themselves Book/DVD Set by Louis M. Savary
- A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare: How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics, and Other Healthcare Organizations by Thomas Zidel
- Going Lean: Busting Barriers to Patient Flow (American College of Healthcare Executives Management) (American College of Healthcare Executives Management) by Amy C. Smith
- The Lean Design Solution by Bart Huthwaite Sr.
- Lean for Practitioners – An Introduction to Lean for Healthcare Organizations 2nd Edition by Mark Eaton Sr.
- Applying Quality Methodologies to Improve Healthcare: Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, Balanced Scorecard, And More by Dawn Vonderheide-liem
- Mastering Patient Flow: Using Lean Thinking to Improve Your Practice Operations (Medical Practice Management Core Learning) by Elizabeth W. Woodcock
- Advanced Lean Thinking: Proven Methods to Reduce Waste and Improve Quality in Health Care by Gary S. Kaplan
- Lean Healthcare: 5 keys for Improving the Workplace Environment by Debra Hadfield; Shelagh Holmes; Tom Fabr
- Stop Rising Healthcare Costs Using Toyota Lean Production Methods: 38 Steps for Improvement by Robert Chalice
- Standard Work for Lean Healthcare by Thomas L. Jackson
- Advanced Lean Sigma for Healthcare by Charlie Protzman
- VSM for Lean Healthcare by Productivity Press
