TY - GEN
T1 - Lean six sigma in health care
T2 - 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2016
AU - Almorsy, Lamia
AU - Khalifa, Mohamed
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Healthcare costs have been increasing worldwide mainly due to over utilization of resources. The savings potentially achievable from systematic, comprehensive, and cooperative reduction in waste are far higher than from more direct and blunter cuts in care and coverage. At King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center inappropriate and over utilization of the glucose test strips used for whole blood glucose determination using glucometers was observed. The hospital implemented a project to improve its utilization. Using the Six Sigma DMAIC approach (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control), an efficient practice was put in place including updating the related internal policies and procedures and the proper implementation of an effective users' training and competency check off program. That resulted in decreasing the unnecessary Quality Control (QC) runs from 13% to 4%, decreasing the failed QC runs from 14% to 7%, lowering the QC to patient testing ratio from 24/76 to 19/81.
AB - Healthcare costs have been increasing worldwide mainly due to over utilization of resources. The savings potentially achievable from systematic, comprehensive, and cooperative reduction in waste are far higher than from more direct and blunter cuts in care and coverage. At King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center inappropriate and over utilization of the glucose test strips used for whole blood glucose determination using glucometers was observed. The hospital implemented a project to improve its utilization. Using the Six Sigma DMAIC approach (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control), an efficient practice was put in place including updating the related internal policies and procedures and the proper implementation of an effective users' training and competency check off program. That resulted in decreasing the unnecessary Quality Control (QC) runs from 13% to 4%, decreasing the failed QC runs from 14% to 7%, lowering the QC to patient testing ratio from 24/76 to 19/81.
KW - Healthcare
KW - Hospitals
KW - Improving Utilization
KW - Reducing Waste
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978767389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-664-4-194
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-664-4-194
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
C2 - 27350502
AN - SCOPUS:84978767389
VL - 226
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 194
EP - 197
BT - Unifying the applications and foundations of biomedical and health informatics
A2 - Mantas, John
A2 - Hasman, Arie
A2 - Gallos, Parisis
A2 - Kolokathi, Aikaterini
A2 - Househ, Mowafa S.
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam ; Berlin ; Washington, DC
Y2 - 1 July 2016 through 3 July 2016
ER -