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Using the methodologies of LEAN in healthcare is a new trend that is gaining quite a bit of momentum. It’s a management methodology borrowed from the production industry (Toyota originated it) that streamlines processes, increases efficiency, and decreases waste. On this episode of The Report Room, I’m chatting with an expert at implementing LEAN into healthcare, Steve Newlon. If you listen you’ll learn what LEAN is, how it works, how many hospitals are implementing it successfully, and how Steve recommends healthcare organization go about introducing LEAN to their staff and organization. What exactly IS LEAN? www.Lean.org defines LEAN methodology in this way: The core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, LEAN means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. A LEAN organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste. To accomplish this, LEAN thinking changes the focus of management from optimizing separate technologies, assets, and vertical departments to optimizing the flow of products and services through entire value streams that flow horizontally across technologies, assets, and departments to customers. Find out more about LEAN and the benefits it is proving to have in healthcare organizations from my guest, Steve Newlon, on this episode. How does LEAN work in a healthcare environment? Since LEAN was first developed in an industrial setting it seems a bit awkward to think of it applying directly to healthcare systems. But Steve Newlon says that many hospitals today are applying the LEAN methodology very successfully, seeing their patient satisfaction rise while waste and inefficiencies are going down. Steve shares some great case studies that highlight how LEAN is being applied to the healthcare field on this episode so be sure you take the time to listen so that you can assess whether LEAN might be beneficial to your organization. Should a hospital hire a LEAN consultant or develop their own teams? As with any new methodology, there are plenty of consultants that are willing to come alongside organizations to help them implement the methodology effectively. But even though he is a LEAN consultant, Steve Newlon isn’t convinced it’s always the right move to hire a consultant. On this episode, Steve describes why he believes that hospitals and other healthcare organizations will be better served by training and equipping their own personnel to be at the forefront of LEAN implementation in their organization and how consultants could be used on a limited basis to supplement the efforts of the LEAN team. You can hear his perspective on this episode. Will LEAN still be relevant to the healthcare industry in 5 to 10 years? Steve Newlon refuses to try to predict the future of LEAN in the healthcare sector but he does have concerns about its future. He wonders if the high cost of many LEAN consultants will cause hospital administrators to get a sour taste in their mouths about the LEAN methodologies without even giving them a chance. But that’s just one of his concerns. You can hear is perspective on why LEAN is so beneficial to the healthcare industry and how you can implement LEAN in your organization from the ground up, on this episode. Outline of this great episode  [0:27] My introduction to this episode with Steve Newlon. [2:12] What IS the LEAN methodology? [3:46] How Steve ended up in healthcare after the Air Force. [4:42] Why are hospitals suddenly interested in implementing LEAN? [7:05] The approaches to LEAN that Steve sees as working the best. [9:27] At what point should front line employees be introduced to LEAN concepts? [12:20] An example of LEAN implementation. [15:59] What are daily huddles and who is involved in them? [20:10] What is managing for daily improvement in LEAN? [21:42] Should hospitals hire LEAN consultants or develop their own teams? [27:40] An example of getting consulting from another company that uses LEAN. [35:13] What are the areas where hospitals can get small LEAN wins? [38:25] Steve’s perception of where healthcare will go with LEAN in 5 to 10 years. [40:20] How you can connect with Steve.    Resources &amp; Links mentioned in this episode ImplementLEAN(at)hotmail.com - connect with Steve Connect with Brian  Twitter @BrianWeirichRN BrianWeirichRN@gmail(dot)com 

Using the methodologies of LEAN in healthcare is a new trend that is gaining quite a bit of momentum. It’s a management methodology borrowed from the production industry (Toyota originated it) that streamlines processes, increases efficiency, and decreases waste. On this episode of The Report Room, I’m chatting with an expert at implementing LEAN into healthcare, Steve Newlon. If you listen you’ll learn what LEAN is, how it works, how many hospitals are implementing it successfully, and how Steve recommends healthcare organization go about introducing LEAN to their staff and organization. What exactly IS LEAN? <a href="http://www.Lean.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.Lean.org</a> defines LEAN methodology in this way: The core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, LEAN means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. A LEAN organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste. To accomplish this, LEAN thinking changes the focus of management from optimizing separate technologies, assets, and vertical departments to optimizing the flow of products and services through entire value streams that flow horizontally across technologies, assets, and departments to customers. Find out more about LEAN and the benefits it is proving to have in healthcare organizations from my guest, Steve Newlon, on this episode. How does LEAN work in a healthcare environment? Since LEAN was first developed in an industrial setting it seems a bit awkward to think of it applying directly to healthcare systems. But Steve Newlon says that many hospitals today are applying the LEAN methodology very successfully, seeing their patient satisfaction rise while waste and inefficiencies are going down. Steve shares some great case studies that highlight how LEAN is being applied to the healthcare field on this episode so be sure you take the time to listen so that you can assess whether LEAN might be beneficial to your organization. Should a hospital hire a LEAN consultant or develop their own teams? As with any new methodology, there are plenty of consultants that are willing to come alongside organizations to help them implement the methodology effectively. But even though he is a LEAN consultant, Steve Newlon isn’t convinced it’s always the right move to hire a consultant. On this episode, Steve describes why he believes that hospitals and other healthcare organizations will be better served by training and equipping their own personnel to be at the forefront of LEAN implementation in their organization and how consultants could be used on a limited basis to supplement the efforts of the LEAN team. You can hear his perspective on this episode. Will LEAN still be relevant to the healthcare industry in 5 to 10 years? Steve Newlon refuses to try to predict the future of LEAN in the healthcare sector but he does have concerns about its future. He wonders if the high cost of many LEAN consultants will cause hospital administrators to get a sour taste in their mouths about the LEAN methodologies without even giving them a chance. But that’s just one of his concerns. You can hear is perspective on why LEAN is so beneficial to the healthcare industry and how you can implement LEAN in your organization from the ground up, on this episode. Outline of this great episode <ul> <li>[0:27] My introduction to this episode with Steve Newlon.</li> <li>[2:12] What IS the LEAN methodology?</li> <li>[3:46] How Steve ended up in healthcare after the Air Force.</li> <li>[4:42] Why are hospitals suddenly interested in implementing LEAN?</li> <li>[7:05] The approaches to LEAN that Steve sees as working the best.</li> <li>[9:27] At what point should front line employees be introduced to LEAN concepts?</li> <li>[12:20] An example of LEAN implementation.</li> <li>[15:59] What are daily huddles and who is involved in them?</li> <li>[20:10] What is managing for daily improvement in LEAN?</li> <li>[21:42] Should hospitals hire LEAN consultants or develop their own teams?</li> <li>[27:40] An example of getting consulting from another company that uses LEAN.</li> <li>[35:13] What are the areas where hospitals can get small LEAN wins?</li> <li>[38:25] Steve’s perception of where healthcare will go with LEAN in 5 to 10 years.</li> <li>[40:20] How you can connect with Steve.  </li> </ul> Resources &amp; Links mentioned in this episode ImplementLEAN(at)<a href="http://hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a> - connect with Steve Connect with Brian <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/brianweirichrn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter @BrianWeirichRN</a></li> <li>BrianWeirichRN@gmail(dot)com</li> </ul>

Effectively Implementing LEAN in Healthcare – featuring Steve Newlon – Episode #7