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Tag Archives: constraints
a box lunch to go…
It looks as though healthcare funding will be cut shortly. Medicare will be on the chopping block soon, reimbursements for hospitals will be down. Those who don’t think outside the box–who never saw the lid of the box closing–will be … Continue reading
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Tagged CEO, constraints, COO, healthcare reform
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the dark side of hospital patient flow…Part 2
I received this email last week. Have you ever seen the drawings with the title ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Let’s play “Where’s the constraint?’ Think in terms of the discussion from my prior post ‘the dark side of hospital flow…Part 1’. Start … Continue reading
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Tagged constraints, COO, hospital patient flow, theory of constraints, toc
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the surgeon as a constraint…
This graph shows components of surgical time during a typical surgical case: red bar: primary surgeon needs to be present and is present top yellow bar: surgeon needs to be present, but isn’t–he’s late and everyone is waiting … Continue reading
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Tagged constraints, COO, healthcare reform, healthcare systems analysis, scheduling, surgeon
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