Sep 162011
According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, “a radiology department at a German academic hospital was able to almost double the percentage of patients receiving an MRI scan within 24 hours, thereby increasing scanner productivity by one-third and probably saving hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, according to a new study.
The key, according to the doctors with University Hospital Giessen and Marburg in Germany, was to apply Lean Six Sigma management techniques.”
Sources:
http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/16871
http://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(11)00171-2/abstract