E132: Announcing free course "Applications of Lean in Healthcare"

About this episode

This episode announces a free online course on the applications of Lean in the healthcare industry, highlighting its significance and the tools covered in the course.

In the ⁠Lean Six Sigma Ecosystem⁠ , I have posted numerous courses over the past few months, and quite a few of them are free. If you're not aware, the adoption of Lean in the healthcare industry has been pretty dramatic over the past 20+ years. I took some of the best healthcare-specific Lean training videos I've used in my Lean Six Sigma courses and compiled them into one online course, called Applications of Lean in Healthcare The course includes 27 lessons (over 3 hours of online learning). You will learn how Lean has been applied at: Harbor-UCLA Medical Virginia Mason Miami Children's Washington Hospital Bahri Dental Group Riverside University Cleveland Clinic. You will also learn how these improvement tools have been implemented specifically in healthcare: 8 Wastes 5S Daily and Tiered Huddles Spaghetti Diagrams Value Stream Mapping Model cells Takt time 2-bin kanban system 3P Training within Industry (TWI) Six Sigma This is such an important topic that we wanted to make this training FREE Want to take this free course? Sign up for a free account Navigate to the Courses section and select " Applications of Lean in Healthcare " Complete the course Do you have…

People in this episode

Host: Brion Hurley

Topics covered

• Lean in Healthcare
• Lean Six Sigma
• Free Course
• Healthcare Improvement Tools
• Online Learning

Keywords

• Lean
• Healthcare
• Six Sigma
• Free Course
• Online Learning
• Improvement Tools
• Training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harbor-UCLA Medical, Virginia Mason, Miami Children's, Washington Hospital, Bahri Dental Group, Riverside University, Cleveland Clinic, BPI Lean Six Sigma Ecosystem

Places: healthcare

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