Een rapportage over de drijfveren en barrières in de medische sector rondom het hergebruik van hoogwaardig medisch instrumentarium (met verdieping en inzichten vanuit een casus van Ultrasone scharen bij Vanguard AG).

Radiotherapy departments face increasing pressure due to rising patient volumes, workforce shortages, and complex multidisciplinary workflows. Although Hospital Information Systems (HIS) capture time‑stamped workflow data, these data are rarely transformed into actionable insights that support continuous …

The current way of organizing education is not tenable in the coming decade. We need to address how we teach, how we organize schools, how we increase the effectiveness of learning, how we construct classrooms, and how we deploy new technologies. Lean management philosophy has been successfully applied …

BACKGROUND: Combining increased dietary protein intake and resistance exercise training for elderly people is a promising strategy to prevent or counteract the loss of muscle mass and decrease the risk of disabilities. Using findings from controlled interventions in a real-life setting requires adaptations …

Lean Six Sigma is applied in a wide range of economic domains ranging from industry to services to healthcare. These are all domains that have markedly different structures. Recently a set of papers has appeared indicating that the successes in applying Lean Six Sigma to new domains such as government, …

Wat kan de zorg leren van Quick Response implementatieprojecten in de maakindustrie? In hoeverre kan Quick Response Manufacturing een oplossing bieden voor de ketenproblemen in de zorg? Op basis van ervaringen met QRM in de maakindustrie is beredeneerd of het mogelijk is om in de zorg meer de focus op …