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Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories
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Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories

by Charles Protzman, Joyce Kerpchar, George Mayzell
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
330 pages
13h 59m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories
207Implementing Lean in a Healthcare Environment
tools. Streamlining overall communication involves building interfaces so all the different IT systems
can talk to each other. This is not an easy task. There are ERP systems available now for hospitals.
Lean teams require varying levels of IT support throughout their improvement journey. Other
support needs involve POU printers and supplying software needs to the team.
The real key when improving processes is not to purchase software to x problems or stream-
line a process until after the process has been “Leaned” out. In addition, the software needs to be
exible. It needs to support Kanban applications ...
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ISBN: 9781482234473