Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare (Closed)
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lean Six Sigma is a methodology which combines principles and tools of Six Sigma and Lean production in order to avoid wastes. The objective is to optimize the utilization of resources, work areas, production process and, at the same time, to assure high quality in production and in process management. This methodology comes from the manufacturing sector. In fact, Lean thinking has been used to describe the Toyota Production System, while Six Sigma has been developed in 1987 by the Motorola Corporation to improve products quality. Lean Six Sigma is capable of combining the statistical analysis power of Six Sigma with the tools and principles used to eliminate wastes and reduce lead times, which is typical of Lean system.
In the last few years, Lean Six Sigma has been also implemented in the health care sector to reduce wastes and to measure process inefficiency in order to reduce it via corrective actions. Unfortunately, not all the healthcare sector implements Lean Six Sigma. For this reason, it is important to keep the research active. Indeed, implementing Lean Six Sigma in the whole health care sector and keeping all personnel involved in this process focused on performance and patient satisfaction (Performance and Patient Centric) could represent a great opportunity to lean towards operational excellence.
The objective of this Topical Collection is to attract ideas regarding the application of Lean Six Sigma tools in healthcare. Especially appreciated are original research articles which could contribute to providing guidelines, tools, and techniques in order to improve healthcare processes for political leaders. Review articles which summarize the state of the art and recent advances in these topics are also welcome.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Reducing hospital costs
- Reducing the amount of hospital-acquired infections
- Reducing patient waiting time
- Introducing new clinical procedures in order to reduce the amount of length of hospital stays
- Comparing drugs
- Improving quality of care provided
Dr. Giovanni Improta
Prof. Dr. Massimo Martorelli
Dr. Alfonso Maria Ponsiglione
Prof. Dr. Antonio Gloria
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- lean
- Six Sigma
- Lean Six Sigma
- DMAIC
- healthcare quality improvement
- process re-engineering
- public health
- patients’ satisfaction