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University of Florida

Fixing Healthcare Delivery 2.0: Advanced Lean

Lean or Toyota Production System (TPS) is responsible for revolutionizing the auto industry by creating highly reliable and safe cars and trucks. In this course healthcare providers, administrators, engineers, and healthcare professional students will be taught how to apply the principles and tools of Lean to health care. They will learn how to identify and remove of waste, design standardized work, apply 5S, map Value streams, create process maps, conduct rapid improvement events (RIEs), level workflow, use A3 forms and Paredo charts, apply error proofing, and create effective visual controls. The instructional videos minimize Lean technical language, and include patient cases to make the lessons more appealing to students in healthcare. Acknowledging that patients are very different from cars we have carefully adapted Lean to health care and call our system: Patient-centered Healthcare Delivery System (PHDS). The name and abbreviation emphasize two key principles taught in our course: 1. Just like PhDs the scientific method must be continually applied when creating plans to improve our systems of care. 2. All improvements must be made looking through the eyes of patients. Armed with this new knowledge students will be able to design and implement sustainable healthcare delivery system improvements.

Status: Health Systems
Status: Operating Room (OR)
Course17 hours

Featured reviews

VJ

5.0Reviewed May 17, 2020

An exceptionally well designed course. Dr Frederick Southwick taught very impressively throughout the course. The assignments were also great.

CT

5.0Reviewed Jul 5, 2020

Great videos and exercises to practice what you learned!

M

5.0Reviewed May 31, 2025

Excellent course to learn, with more practical insights

RS

4.0Reviewed Jan 10, 2021

Fantastic delivery of content and practical exercises. I got a lot out of this course.

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