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I am the director of hospital operations at a 800+ bed hospital and we are looking for an IT solution to help create a daily schedule for our patients.  A software or program that pulls our OR, radiology, echo, stress, cath lab, MRI, etc. schedules into one central database, that can easily be viewed by staff.  We constantly get feedback ...

  Hello, I am seeking individuals that have experience going through the CAHME accreditation process.  I have questions about the process and time frames. Please respond if you would be willing to discuss with me offline. Thank you for your time and attention!  

Some of the advice you're getting is right on; some is "soft cost" advice. Here you go -- must quantify a direct reduction in the cost center(s) in the change process and/or the additional revenue from freed-up capacity that will begin ON THE DAY THE PROJECT ENDS. Many want to state "additional capacity that can accommodate ...

I have opened this Post in the event any readers of the Healthcare Executive Mar/Apr 2010 article on the use of Lean or Six Sigma to improve patient safety would like to further explore the key concepts of the article. Thanks... Chip

My facility did an entire VSA on the Central Processing department, including a rapid improvement event on this very topic.  What I found was two fold: 1) we eat away at our savings in healthcare-based Lean initiatives by not reducing the FTE when a workflow improvement decrease the number of worked hours in the department.  If any part ...

One of the side effects of studying supply and equipment shortages is that you often find that you have too little of the things you need and too many of the things you don't.  Reducing the inventory of things that you don't need can result in significant savings.  If you are able to impact first OR start delays and can regularly ...