Objectives To assess the effects of lean healthcare (LH) on patient flow in ambulatory care
and determine whether waiting time and length of stay (LOS) decrease after LH …

Purpose Even though the implementation of lean in health care environments is relatively
recent, it has been receiving a lot of attention in recent years. Partly because of the fact that it …

Coronary artery disease is one of the most prevalent chronic pathologies in the modern
world, leading to the deaths of thousands of people, both in the United States and in Europe …

Objectives In the context of the gradual development of artificial intelligence in health care,
the clinical decision support systems (CDSS) play an increasing crucial role in improving the …

Purpose Meeting the patients' requirements as customers of the health care sector is
crucially important as a social responsibility. According to the resource constraints, only an …

Purpose Since healthcare spending accounts for approximately 6.6 per cent of the gross
domestic product, reducing waste in health facilities is necessary to generate significant cost …

Lean healthcare aims to manage and improve the processes in the healthcare sector by
eliminating everything that adds no value by improving quality of services, ensuring patient …

This article presents the state of the art of Lean principles applied in Emergency
Departments through a systematic literature review. Our article extends previous work found …

Purpose The reduction of costs has a more and more relevant role in the healthcare context,
therefore, a large effort is done by health providers to this aim, for example, by reducing the …

Nowadays, companies are experimenting novel organizational solutions to efficiently
operate in uncertain and highly dynamic scenarios. As a potential solution, this paper …