Mark Karasek, executive vice president of engineering and chief technology officer of The Chamberlain Group, teaches students the fundamentals of changing processes within organizations. When an ...

Preparing for a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) improvement program requires a well-defined process and team-based approach. The foundation of any improvement program is the business assessment ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- Saving millions of dollars, the recipients of this year's Lean Six Sigma excellence awards reduced processing times, improved health of the force and increased ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Results of the largest U.S. outpatient heart failure clinical study show that implementation of a process improvement program significantly improved adherence to ...

Charles Brandon has always been interested in math and puzzles. As a young boy, he enjoyed puzzles and then developed an interest in Sudoku and crossword. That interest eventually led him to the field ...

There is a common lean phrase, “Bad systems beat good people.” Sometimes it is attributed to Dr. W. Edwards Deming although it isn’t actually his quote. I’ve used it for 20 years but couldn’t tell you ...

Physician burnout is a frontline challenge of US health care, with estimates suggesting a burnout rate approaching 50 percent among practicing physicians. The organizational drivers of burnout in ...

Like others in Minnesota, Allina started 2019 with depressed demand for health care services due to rough winter weather and a mild flu season. Early financial losses continued in the second quarter, ...

TIDI Products, LLC, a leading manufacturer of clinically differentiated, single-use, infection-prevention products, today announced the successful launch of its TIDIShield™ EyeSplash Zero™ process ...

A rapid cycle improvement approach was used to optimize GI referrals to the CR program. Barriers to CR referral were identified through a literature review and informal interviews of GI clinicians.

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) report disproportionally worse cancer mortality. Current global cancer control efforts focus predominantly on expanding access to multimodality treatment for ...