Jupiter Medical Center: The when and how to use Kaizen in healthcare

by Alicia Caramenico, FierceHealthcare With hospitals feeling the pressure to improve efficiency and lower costs, some are implementing the Kaizen method to streamline processes. Kaizen is among a number of process improvement strategies taking hold at hospitals across the country, including Six Sigma and lean. They all aim to improve existing processes within a hospital, but they're not one in the same. So we turned to a hospital that gained experience with Kaizen, Jupiter (Fla.) Medical Center. Lee Fox (pictured right), M.D., Sheridan Healthcare's chief of radiology at the medical center, has been in the kaizen trenches and offered some insights on how to facilitate process improvements. Read the full interview at FierceHealthcare.
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