This article originally appeared in Oncology Practice Management by Jamie Bachman, Executive Director for Oncology Services, UCHealth, and Brian Shields, Manager of Performance Improvement, Oncology Service Line, UCHealth. COVID-19 is testing the medical community in unprecedented ways, and every specialty…
Infusion scheduling has always been a hard problem to crack. With operational constraints, varying nurse schedules, and very sick patients it is hard to construct a flawless schedule that fits the needs of everyone involved. Ensuring that each day runs…
In a previous article, I talked about how higher “velocity” contributes to greater efficiencies in a healthcare operations setting. The key to increasing velocity is to focus on minimizing the non value-added time before attempting to improve the value-added time.…
The notion of improving operational efficiency is conspicuously absent from the healthcare debate — neither Obamacare nor the newly proposed GOP plan discusses the impact that a step-function improvement in efficiency could have on access to healthcare (through more capacity),…
If you’re of a certain age, you remember Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. Back in 1984 - before “viral” anything was a thing – millions of people became obsessed…
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