Tag: Productivity
Practicing 'wasteology' in the OR
An academic medical center is practicing "wasteology" to pare time, expense, and hassle from its OR processes. Using lean thinking, the center is streamlining its operations to get more cases done and improve service to patients, physicians, and staff. The University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) in Seattle has applied…
Parallel processing to reduce OR time
Parallel processing—performing some tasks in tandem—is one strategy that helped an Ohio hospital reduce nonoperative time by 37%, from nearly 65 minutes to 42 minutes. Turnover time was reduced by 38%, from about 43 minutes to 26 minutes. The project team analyzed patient flow from the surgeon's office through discharge…
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