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Lean within Healthcare

Lean within Healthcare

Introduction

With rising pressure on healthcare providers to reduce costs and improve quality, an increasing number of organizations are looking to “Lean” tools and techniques as a breakthrough solution for performance improvement. Over the last four decades, Lean has emerged as one of the most impactful approaches to help increase an organization's competitiveness through improvements in process efficiency and a reduction in operational waste. Today, Lean is used in most global industries and virtually all organizational sectors including healthcare.

Discussion

Lean is a customer-centric methodology focused on continuously identifying improvement opportunities by ...