LEAN clinical laboratory
February 25, 2008
Daily Kaizen posted recently about “a tour of a LEAN-inspired clinical laboratory,” the regional laboratory at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic, with lots of photos included in the post.
For further reading: Leanblog post on “A Lean Lab Example”
“Adapting Lean management and Six Sigma techniques in the clinical lab” from Clinical Lab Products Feb 2006
“Lean labs reduce blunders” from Clinical Lab Products Feb 2007
“Using LEAN thinking in staffing a new clinical laboratory” at Westgard.com (5Mb pdf); interview with the author, Hope Grieg
Entry Filed under: news. Tags: clinical laboratory, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic, Lean management.
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