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This book provides a detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, with a special emphasis on process improvement and operations management in hospitals.  The book begins with a description of the Enterprise Performance Excellence (EPE) improvement methodology developed by the author that links several methodologies including systems thinking, theory of constraints, Lean and Six Sigma to provide an enterprise-wide prioritization and value-chain view of health care. The EPE methodology helps to improve flow at the macro or value-chain level, and then identifies Lean Six Sigma detailed improvements that can further improve processes within the value-chain.  The book also provides real-world health care applications of the EPE and Lean Six Sigma methodologies that showed significant results on throughput, capacity, operational and financial performance. The Enterprise Performance Excellence methodology is described, and also the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) problem solving approach which is used to solve problems for health care processes as they are applied to real world cases.  The case studies include a wide variety of processes and problems including:  emergency department throughput improvement; operating room turnaround; operating room organization; CT imaging diagnostic test reduction in an emergency department; linen process improvement; implementing sepsis protocols in an emergency department; critical success factors of an enterprise performance excellence program.

Health services administration --- Medical care --- Six sigma (Quality control standard) --- Quality control --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Engineering. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Health administration. --- Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Health Administration. --- Public health --- Standards --- Practice of medicine. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Organisation --- Management --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization

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Process control --- Quality control --- Six sigma (Quality control standard) --- Statistical methods

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"This book provides a guide for systems engineering modeling and design. It focusses on the design life cycle with tools and application-based examples of how to design a system, focusing on incorporating systems principles and tools to ensure system integration. It provides a product-based and a service system examples to understand the models, tools, and activities to be applied to design and implement a system. First section explains systems principles, models and architecture for systems engineering, lifecycle models and the systems architecture. Further sections explain systems design, development and deployment lifecycle with applications and tools and advanced systems engineering topics. Features: Focusses on model-based systems engineering and describes the architecture of the systems design models. Uses real-world examples to corroborate different and disparate systems engineering activities. Describes and applies the Vee systems engineering design methodology, with cohesive examples and application of designing systems. Discusses culture change and the skills people need to design and integrate systems. Shows detailed and cohesive examples of the systems engineering tools throughout the systems engineering life cycle. This book aims at Graduate students and Researchers in Systems engineering, Modeling and Simulation, any major engineering discipline, industrial engineering, and technology"--

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