
129Basic Lean Concepts and Tools– Assessment and Analyze
so changes in case mix can be monitored and updated as surgical OR use changes, and room alloca-
tions can be adjusted accordingly.
Author’s Note
Technically, group technology is somewhat of a compromise between batch and Lean. For example,
in the Lean world we would want universal patient rooms on the oors or universal OR rooms.
Since it is not practical to have every room outtted for an ICU patient or every OR room outtted
with laminar ow hoods and robots, we leverage this by creating families of rooms using group
technology criteria. The idea behind group technology is to still i