Activity Doesn’t Mean Achievement: Identifying Waste in Healthcare

Any book, white paper, blog, tweet, etc. on Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, etc. must recognize not only the importance of having staff learn about and identify wastes, as well as the array of Lean Six Sigma tools and concepts to eliminate those wastes, but also recognize the importance of leadership to ensure employees are engaged in an improvement project.  This is accomplished through the following activities, in which, all have an equally important part:

It is with great pleasure to present Activity Doesn’t Mean Achievement: Identifying Waste in Healthcare to all types of healthcare facilities to further provide assistance  to not only reduce wastes (and costs), but at the same time improve patient safety, quality of care, and quick access to care.  While healthcare is aggressively using a variety of ways to improve the continuum of care, we believe that learning about and identifying wastes in this format will assist this endeavor.