Making Healthcare Better

What if, in our healthcare organizations, we could dramatically improve the quality and timeliness of patient care, in the short-term, without heavy investments, without adding more resources, and without asking current staff to participate in yet another motivational program?

Sound like an impossible dream?  It has been done, and is currently being done, in hospitals around the world.  Hospitals and other healthcare provider organizations are achieving dramatic reduction in ER wait times, improved quality of patient care, shorter length-of-stay, and increased patient “throughput” (and increased revenue) in acute care and operating theaters, all without adding more beds or staff, and without asking staff to work harder.  And it is not necessary to add more sophisticated computer systems either!

How then is it being accomplished?  By applying the principles and practices that are drawn from a body of knowledge known as “Theory-of-Constraints” (TOC).  TOC is an evidence-based approach that does not interfere with clinical practice, but seeks to remove delays and attack the core problems that currently impede the effective use of the capacity and resources we already have.

In this session we will describe major problem scenarios that exist in today’s healthcare environments, and point toward a practical, feasible way out that will help make our patients and organizations better, sooner, and in a sustained way.

By the way—we will relate our work back to manufacturing for those practitioners who want to learn how to apply the principles in their environments also!