LEAN Basics for Health-System Pharmacists
As pharmacy leaders are responding to the challenge to ensure patient safety while streamlining pharmacy operations and improving efficiency, many are discovering that Lean process improvement techniques are a useful tool.
Less is More: Going Lean in a Hospital Pharmacy
The pediatric pharmacy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been using Lean principles for process improvement for the last three years and recently applied the methodology to the IV room medication preparation and checking process.
Connecting Departments through the Kaizen Process: Medication-Use Applications
Responding to the challenge to ensure patient safety while streamlining pharmacy operations and improving efficiency, pharmacy leaders are conducting Kaizen events. Learn how one hospital has successfully used the Kaizen system.