Reducing clinical variation is a critical step to reign in America’s healthcare costs. In a recent Verras blog post, Dan Woods provides a brief case study of one hospital’s experience in reducing MRI ...

One-piece flow (OPF) is axiomatic among lean practitioners. We’ve all seen the illustrations (like this one) that show the advantage of one-piece flow. There are several of this sort of animated ...

TAT is how long a process takes to finish from beginning to end. This includes wasted time, and time spent waiting for ...

Standardized clinical assessment and management plans are an alternative to clinical practice guidelines that reduce practice variability while allowing for physicians to adapt practices when ...

In this article, we will define what is Six Sigma from a variety of perspectives. The benefits of Six Sigma will be presented ...