[PDF mobi ePub] Lean Doctors: A Bold and Practic

[Foreword by Michael F. Gutzeit, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Quality, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.]<br /><br />This practical, how-to book clearly and succinctly takes the reader through six proven “success steps” for implementing lean in any healthcare environment:<br /><br />1. Create physician flow<br />2. Support physician value-added time<br />3. Visually communicate patient status<br />4. Standardize everyone’s work<br />5. Lay out the clinic for minimal motion<br />6. Change the care delivery model<br /><br />Why go through such a transformation? Because it works. Tell a doctor that he can see the same number of patients, offering the same high quality and personal care, and have an extra 90 minutes at the end of his clinic day – and that means something. Tell the staff that they can look forward to actually ending on time, with satisfied patients, no backlog, and having focused their attention completely on quality patient care – and they will listen.