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A management system is a set of policies, processes and procedures used by an organization to ensure that it can fulfill the tasks required to achieve its objectives. [1] These objectives cover many aspects of the organization's operations (including product quality, worker management, safe operation, client relationships, regulatory ...
Lean services is the application of lean manufacturing production methods in the service industry (and related method adaptations). Lean services have among others been applied to US health care providers [ 1 ] and the UK HMRC .
Iconographic Collections. Keywords: E. Walker; Florence Nightingale; W.J. Simpson. Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks in all the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors.
George, Michael L. Lean Six Sigma for Service: How to Use Lean Speed & Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services and Transactions, The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2003. Maleyeff, John. Improving Service Delivery in Government with Lean and Six Sigma, Strategy and Transformation Series, IBM Center for the Business of Government.
In the United States, management of a single institution (e.g. a hospital) is also referred to as "medical and health services management", "healthcare management" or "health administration". Health systems management ensures that specific outcomes are attained, that departments within a health facility are running smoothly, that the right ...
Lean manufacturing methodology has become a prevalent practice in public healthcare, commonly known as lean healthcare. [77] Due to the intensively competitive environment, lean approach becomes a growing alternative in the healthcare sector to achieve optimized resource management and performance improvement. [78]
Computer-Aided Lean Management (CALM) is a management philosophy that uses computational software to reduce risk and inefficiencies. CALM acts on uncertainties and business inefficiencies to increase profitability through the use of computational decision-making tools that enable opportunities for additional value creation.
Value-stream mapping has supporting methods that are often used in lean environments to analyze and design flows at the system level (across multiple processes).. Although value-stream mapping is often associated with manufacturing, it is also used in logistics, supply chain, service related industries, healthcare, [5] [6] software development, [7] [8] product development, [9] project ...