Lean Thinking in Healthcare Sector: Experience from an Indian Hospital

dc.contributor.author	Narayanamurthy, Gopalakrishnan
dc.contributor.author	Gurumurthy, Anand
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-27T06:50:45Z
dc.date.available	2016-05-27T06:50:45Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2259/719
dc.description	1 Fellow Program in Management, Quantitative Methods & Operations Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), Kerala, India 2 Associate Professor, Quantitative Methods & Operations Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kerala, India.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Experience of implementing lean thinking (LT) in a multispecialty hospital located in southern part of India is discussed. Case hospital was chosen and problems associated with various processes were identified and they were mapped to seven wastes. Solutions based on lean principles/practices were implemented and improvements were evaluated through performance measures.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	;IIMK/WPS/161/QM&OM/2014/19
dc.subject	Lean healthcare	en_US
dc.subject	Lean thinking	en_US
dc.subject	Lean production	en_US
dc.subject	Indian healthcare	en_US
dc.subject	Case study	en_US
dc.subject	India	en_US
dc.title	Lean Thinking in Healthcare Sector: Experience from an Indian Hospital	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US