6 strategies hospitals should steal from the airline industry
Wasteful operations may include: delays, over-processing, redundant work, poor inventory management, inefficient transport, unnecessary motion, over-production (push instead of pull), and defects that cause harm and re-work.
According to the author, the airline industry has worked on these problems for decades and although its operations and flow patterns are significantly less complex than healthcare, it has mastered basic elements that healthcare sector can learn from to give it self a jump-start on mastering and taming a difficult but necessary component of operational design that will lead to improved outcomes at lower costs.
According to the author, the airline industry has worked on these problems for decades and although its operations and flow patterns are significantly less complex than healthcare, it has mastered basic elements that healthcare sector can learn from to give it self a jump-start on mastering and taming a difficult but necessary component of operational design that will lead to improved outcomes at lower costs.
6 strategies hospitals should steal from the airline industry
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