I’ve written before about Lean principles and how they directly impact the healthcare industry at large. Recently, I was honored to have the opportunity to again write about that impact in a guest blog post for Healthcare Finance. That post discusses intersite logistics, or healthcare transportation, which is what MedSpeed does for a living.
Because healthcare transportation is typically never greater than a fraction of a percent of a health system’s total expenditure, many healthcare executives miss it as a large area of opportunity. However, while unifying transportation (intersite logistics) may have a cap on upside as an end in and of itself, it can be a means to create other opportunities for operational standardization within a healthcare system, by eliminating waste along entire value streams—directly in keeping with the Lean philosophy.