Lean Management / Lean Healthcare

Lean Healthcare identifies all those aspects that represent a cost for the company, that do not add value but are consuming resources. It is what we call waste:

• Wait times for room assignment, to be seen or to get supplies.
• The duration of the care process, from the first visit to the primary care doctor, analysis, consultations with specialists, operations, treatment, until the resolution of the health problem. The waiting times that the patient has to endure between each intervention are crucial.
• Over-processing due to repeated processes (e.g. analytics).
• Inventories for excess material.
• The transport and movement of samples, patients, medication or supplies.
• System defects, multiple and of different aetiology: low identification of specimens, erroneous treatments…