Navjunk is excessive ornamentation of navigation systems that distracts from its purpose. Post ends with an example of a good hospital sign system.
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Some more tools from Toyota Production System and work (re)design.
A quick chapter about hospital facility planning and design
A high level overview of some consideration in designing inventory systems.
This chapter is too old. Don’t read it.
Another very brief chapter summary.
A Markov Devision Process may help a situation of uncertainty that involves sequential decision making.
Bed capacity cannot be assessed base on occupancy levels. As occupancy levels (utilization) increases, the queue grows exponentially.
I left out the math, makes this a very short chapter.
Computer simulation in healthcare needs to combine model developers with subject matter experts for best results.
Some high level ideas how to spread evidence-based practices.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis helps proactively study possible sources of risk and ways to mitigate this.
Lean is a popular tool to improve productivity and organization in Healthcare. And it works.
The size of a physician practice can have dramatic effects on the length of the patient cue.
Tracking healthcare performance is difficult.
Healthcare engineering can propose some concepts to help integrate healthcare service delivery.
A brief overview of healthcare insurance in America
Long-term care has complex family, resident, and institutional dynamics
Nurses have a diverse set of roles in the healthcare system
Outpatient medicine is a tough high volume low margin industry.