Improving Healthcare Using Toyota Lean Production Methods
eBook - PDF

Improving Healthcare Using Toyota Lean Production Methods

46 Steps For Improvement

  1. 317 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Improving Healthcare Using Toyota Lean Production Methods

46 Steps For Improvement

About this book

What differentiates this book from other healthcare improvement books is that it is the only currently available book that presents a simple recipe of 46 lean steps for healthcare providers to reduce cost and improve quality. By taking these straightforward steps, healthcare providers can adopt the same lean methods which have enabled companies like Toyota to become so successful.The first part of the book explains cost and quality issues facing U.S. healthcare. From that understanding, the second part then teaches healthcare providers a 46-step recipe to reduce costs and improve quality by using Toyota Lean Production methods. With industry experts citing that as much as 40% of the total cost of healthcare production is attributed to wasteful processes, it is logical that reducing waste will lower costs. This is the basis of this book.Although other books have presented Toyota's lean methods, this book goes further by showing how to directly apply those successful methods to healthcare, where they are sorely needed. This book is intended to be a practical manual for healthcare providers to use to improve quality and reduce costs. It can be a multi-year strategic plan for healthcare providers to adopt.This second edition includes additional improvement steps and five new appendices of practical examples authored by renowned lean experts.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. CIP data
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Part I U.S. Healthcare System Problems and Solutions
  8. Part II Reduce Healthcare Cost and Improve Quality by Using Toyota Lean Production Methods
  9. Appendix A Automaker Benchmarks
  10. Appendix B Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center Emergency Department Patient Flow—Rapid Process Improvement (RPI)
  11. Appendix C 5S Catches on at the VA Pittsburgh Health System
  12. Appendix D Error-Free Pathology: Applying Lean Production Methods to Anatomic Pathology
  13. Appendix E Going Lean in Health Care
  14. Appendix F Creating Lean Healthcare
  15. Appendix G Fixing Healthcare From the Inside, Today
  16. Appendix H Lean and Healthy
  17. Appendix I No Satisfaction at Toyota
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Glossary of Lean Terms
  21. Index