from WaPo:
From the beginning, variation in care processes was the greatest source of waste. By standardizing and error-proofing, the quality of care was improved while costs were lowered. Patient time on ventilators is a direct example. Through improvements in process, patient days on ventilators have been safely reduced by 26 percent. This, in turn, has decreased the risk of infection and many uncomfortable side effects while freeing up specialists to focus on additional patients.
The same principles, when applied to ordering medical supplies, saved $2.5 million in the first year alone. And, by deploying visual boards on patient care units, bottlenecks in the hospital discharge process have been decreased, getting patients home faster and opening beds for other sick children.
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