Case Study: Streamlining Coast Guard's Accounts Payable Process

Case Study: Streamlining Coast Guard’s Accounts Payable Process

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The accounts payable process at the U.S. Coast Guard Finance Center was overstressed from increasing complexity and a patchwork of temporary IT fixes. A project team broke through the complexity and designed a Lean, effective and scalable process.

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Lean Six Sigma Improves New Hire Reimbursement Process

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Roy Madsen, Senior Advisor to the CFO and Lean Six Sigma Champion at the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), said his organization had long encountered a classic catch-22: “From 5 to 10 percent of our workforce each year are people hired into entry-level examiner positions, the majority who have to move to a […]

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Lean Delivers Faster Turnaround Time in Hospital Lab

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Having found that lab results assist clinicians in more than 70 percent of their patient management decisions, Virtua Health recognized that improvements made to lab processes would have a ripple effect on patient wait times in critical departments. For instance, blood work determines many emergency department (ED) decisions, and lab test results influence patient discharge. […]

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Applying Transactional Lean at Medical Imaging Firm

Applying Transactional Lean at Medical Imaging Firm

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University Medical Imaging successfully implemented a Lean and Six Sigma transactional process improvement and training program when delays and other issues began to affect patient satisfaction.

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