Saturday, April 19, 2014

Using The Lean Six Sigma Healthcare Method

By Essie Osborn


The lean six sigma method has always been a very effective method when it comes to increasing quality and eliminating all the defects that a certain company would have. Now this can especially be applied when it comes to the health care industry. For those who are wondering how it works, here is how the lean six sigma healthcare method is used.

Now this method can be used when it comes to handling clinics or hospitals. This means that the one who manages the hospital or clinic can actually eliminate defects in the processes that the institution would handle. This means that everyone has to be trained in this in order to avoid any errors.

Now one of the things that hospitals would have to look out for would be the errors in the medical processes that will be done. The thing about medical processes is that it can mean the loss of the life of a patient. So it is very important for a hospital to eliminate all of the errors in the medical processes so that no lives will be taken.

If one already knows of the lean six sigma method, then he is probably familiar already with the DMAIC process. Now if one is not that familiar yet, this is a method that defines, measures, analyzes, improves, and controls the errors in the process. After one has spotted the problem, he just has to use these five steps to fix them.

Now the first thing to do would be to simply look for a problem in the system and get to the main root of it before actually tackling it. If one sees that there is a problem in a certain process, then it could be either a human error or a machine error that is causing the problem. This is done in the definition of the problem stage wherein one is determining what is the main cause.

Now the second step in the process of DMAIC would be to of course measure the problem and how bad it is. After measuring the intensity of this problem, the next thing to do would be to understand it and analyze it. It is also here in this step that one would try to determine a possible solution that could be done in order for the issue to be fixed.

Once one has already come up with a solution, then the next thing would be the implementation. After that is already done, then the last step would be to control the entire process so that the problem will not happen again. If one would want consistent performance, then he has to monitor the implementation.

So as one can see, this method can work really well if one is in the healthcare industry. Now the goal of any institution is to make sure that each patient would be well taken care of no matter what so that they will be able to heal themselves of any sickness. By making use of this method, it is possible to give them the best treatment.




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