The cost of healthcare is rising and inspite of methods such as Six Sigma, Lean, Design for Six Sigma for process improvements, there does not seem to be any control on the cost.  Rising cost of healthcare has made us all learn about the economics of healthcare.  We as well as the health policy experts [...]

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This blog is dedicated to total healthcare transformation using Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, and Design for Six Sigma methods. In addition to this, blog also discusses Risk Management, Policy, Electronic Health Records, Business Strategy, Software Selection and Deployment, etc. The goal of this forum is discuss all healthcare related issues with intent to [...]

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No one has the scientific proof to accept or deny.  Many studies conducted over the years in the USA as well as in the European countries have found no direct link.  However, today a noted scientist Dr. Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has suggested to his colleagues to limit their cell [...]

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Use business transformation methods such as Lean Six Sigma with Change Management tools to redesign Healthcare into a Patientcare. On June 17th, Dr. R.K. “ravi” Pandey posed a very abstract question to the readers whether patientcare and healthcare are the same in the article titled  “Does Healthcare Equals Patientcare?”. The responses were varied but had one [...]

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 One of the recent need in healthcare industry has been towards a rapid turnaround in diagnostic results.  New medical equipments are coming out with the claims of faster cycle time and improving healthcare productivity.  While these new equipments do reduce the time a person spends on an equipment, it does not, however, mean that the equipment is [...]

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