Lean Thinking for Healthcare
A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious
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Nilmini Wickramasinghe with Latif Al-Hakim · Chris Gonzalez Joseph Tan Editors
Lean Thinking for Healthcare
Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
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Nilmini Wickramasinghe with Latif Al-Hakim • Chris Gonzalez • Joseph Tan Editors
Lean Thinking for Healthcare
Editors Nilmini Wickramasinghe Epworth HealthCare & RMIT University School of Business Information Technology Melbourne, VIC, Australia Chris Gonzalez Department of Urology Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA
Latif Al-Hakim University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia Joseph Tan DeGroote School Business McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada
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For our Families Series Dedication This series is dedicated to Leo Cussen: Learned scholar, colleague extraordinaire, and good friend.
Foreword
Healthcare, by all accounts, is fraught with problems and lack of sustainability under the current circumstances. Service quality is perennially challenged. Embracing IS
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