Articles & Case Studies
Health Care / DOOR TO DOC IN ED
An overview of the project demonstrates how the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology provided tools to decrease Door-to-Doc times and meet the ED target. Overcrowding in the ED has the potential to leave without being seen, creates a perception to inefficiency. Which to loss in revenue and could ultimately become a life issue.
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OR Inventory
Just like any investment in business, inventory needs to serve the purpose of maximizing profit. However, in many cases inventory has turned into a major cash flow constraint thus making it necessary to optimize inventory using analytical and statistical methods in an integrated approach.
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Financial/Bank
Six Sigma is a methodology that uses data and statistics for measuring quality, traditionally in a manufacturing industry, but now even banks are applying the six sigma model to continuously improve quality and gain a competitive advantage to attract and retain customers. The Six Sigma methodology reduces the amount of time and resources wasted in operations in order to make bank operation more effective. Financial institutions have to provide customer friendly service with proven reliability of delivery processes.
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Manufacturing/Construction
Although Six Sigma has been implemented in the manufacturing and other industries, it is still a relatively new concept in the building industry. This building sector has an important role in many economies around the world. As other Industries this one needs significant quantities of human and material resources, which today much of it is wasted due to process inefficiency or non-existent quality management procedures. Six Sigma methodologies is an excellent tool to improve and generate strategies to decrease these inefficiencies, to increase quality in internal finishes during construction and to reduce building cost. In many construction projects the implementation of Six Sigma has improved from 2.5 sigma to 3.9 sigma for quality and internal finishes.
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Streamlining Radiology Flow to Improve ED Throughput
By Carlos Sanchez, Deisell Diaz and Angel Rivera
Moving patients effectively through an Emergency Department (ED) can become a challenge for private and public hospitals. In today’s health care industry, more and more physicians rely on radiology images to make a confident diagnosis on patients. As a result, radiology departments have a growing backlog of appointments in many of the services they offer.
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Quality versus Financial Improvements
Should Hospitals, and Health Systems, focus on Quality or Financial viability? This question haunts many executives. In reality, however, the growing regulatory changes merge the issues, leading organizations to fix both concurrently with a streamlined solution that focuses on enhancing Patient Quality Outcomes (PQO).The restructuring of existing Hospital and Health Systems’ Quality Infrastructures is inevitably. Tomorrows Quality Structure is a new Quality Paradigm that effectively and efficiently delivers PQO through an infrastructure that optimizes patient care outcomes and drives down costs.
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Vehicles of Performance/Process Improvement
Most people do not think in terms of a process; and, some assume they do. This is one of the leading roadblocks to organizational enhancement through growth and/or cost reductions. In most organizations, things just happen. That is, there is no correlation or pattern of events as to why things or events occur.
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Smart Cpk and Setup Project Control Phase
The control phase involves developing a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, which includes qualifying the equipment, documenting the revised process, providing training in the revised process, monitoring the process for compliance, and taking actions when unexpected results occur. The PDCA cycle ensures the process will follow a cycle of continuous improvement.
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