Every department in your facility is engaged in a hospital-wide system of patient flow or patient care. The emergency department is connected to the ICU. The ICU is connected to the OR. Discharge and ...

Johns Hopkins is taking another step forward with Sightline, the multiyear effort to improve how services in human resources, finance, procurement, and sponsored projects support faculty and staff ...

The healthcare reform law has created an impetus for hospitals to improve efficiencies, squeezing as much waste out of their processes as possible, while improving quality. As part of the Patient ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's committee on Improving the Regulatory Efficiency and Reducing Administrative Workload to Strengthen Competitiveness and Productivity of ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...