Lean Healthcare Trip to China, Day 1, Part 2

Published: July 26, 2016, noon

http://leanblog.org/audio154\n\nContinuing from Part 1 of my post about my first day of my first China trip, I'd like to share more about the Lean healthcare conference and presentations that took place.In the next presentation from a Chinese hospital, the speaker started talking about the need to "improve [patient and employee] satisfaction through Lean management" and that "we have the same goals and purpose" as I expressed in my presentation... namely safety, quality, waiting times, cost, andemployee morale (SQDCM).\n\nI had showed a "spaghetti diagram" in my talk, shown below, of a podiatrist running around an Illinois clinic searching for supplies (this was the walking required for ONE patient... 10 minutes of waste):\n\n--- \n\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lean-blog-audio/support