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For more information on process improvement, Lean Sigma and more, check out some of these informative process management resources:

Business Improvement Resources

TBM Consulting Group
TBM Consulting Group delivers rapid, dramatic performance improvement for manufacturers.

Steven Spear’s Blog
Business blog from the author of Chasing the Rabbit: How Market leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies can Catch up and Win.

Intermedium Group
As clients make investments in training, new capital, new technologies, and/or new facilities, The IM Group helps clients to lower costs by obtaining government financial benefits.

ASQ (The American Society for Quality)
The American Society for Quality (ASQ), headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, is the world’s leading authority on quality since 1946. The 104,000-member professional association creates better workplaces and communities worldwide by advancing learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results. By making quality a global priority, an organizational imperative, and a personal ethic, ASQ becomes the community for everyone who seeks technology, concepts, or tools to improve themselves and their world.

Healthcare Resources

Meeting Healthcare Regulatory Compliance
An Illinois medical center moves from paper to automated informed consent to meet regulatory compliance, reduce errors and facilitate communication.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of healthcare throughout the world.

Center for Health Transformation
CHT is a collaboration of private and public sector leaders committed to a system-wide transformation of the United States health system into a system that saves both lives and money.

Financial Resources

Lean Manufacturing for Financial Services: Delivering Value by Eliminating Waste
This Corporate Executive Board study provides a synopsis on Lean Thinking in the financial services industry.

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Fox Video - Healthcare Reform

Guidon CEO, Ron Wince questions the cost savings of the health-care reform bills with FoxBusiness.com.

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New Case Study

Process Improvement in Accounts Receivable

For this specialty pharmacy, the payment complexity between Physician diagnosis, acceptable payor requirements, benefits eligibility, patient financial responsibility and governmental or regulatory requirements either delayed or exasperated bad debt. Unable to control growing bad debt losses, senior leadership targeted a specific goal to reduce bad debt through the identification of bad debt root causes.

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New Article

Improving Lab Efficiency: It all boils down to process, process, process

"It's not a good time. We'll get to that later." How many times have you heard or said something similar when discussing critical laboratory process improvements? "Later" often turns into never. You may be too overloaded to deploy new initiatives, but waiting only exacerbates the challenges. Processing delays and errors due to overcapacity have surely led to preventable patient deaths--a tragic yet completely unnecessary situation. It takes just days to effectively install efficiency processes utilizing LeanSigma lab tactics and less than a week to positively impact patient outcomes while reducing laboratory stress.

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