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Advanced Lean Healthcare: Improving Delivery Systems

Master Toyota Production System principles to revolutionize healthcare delivery, reduce waste, and improve patient outcomes.

Master Toyota Production System principles to revolutionize healthcare delivery, reduce waste, and improve patient outcomes.

This comprehensive course teaches healthcare professionals how to apply Lean (Toyota Production System) principles to transform healthcare delivery. Students learn to identify and eliminate waste, implement standardized workflows, and create sustainable improvements in healthcare systems. The curriculum covers essential Lean tools including 5S, value stream mapping, rapid improvement events, error proofing, and visual controls. Through practical examples and case studies, participants develop skills to reduce costs, improve patient safety, and enhance healthcare quality. The course emphasizes patient-centered approaches and scientific methodology in healthcare system improvement.

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Advanced Lean Healthcare: Improving Delivery Systems

This course includes

16 Hours

Of Self-paced video lessons

Beginner Level

Completion Certificate

awarded on course completion

2,435

What you'll learn

  • Understand Lean principles and their application to healthcare

  • Master waste identification and reduction techniques

  • Implement standardized work processes in healthcare settings

  • Develop value stream mapping and process improvement skills

  • Apply error proofing methods to enhance patient safety

  • Create effective visual controls for healthcare processes

Skills you'll gain

lean healthcare
Toyota Production System
waste reduction
standardized work
value stream mapping
error proofing
quality improvement
patient safety

This course includes:

239 Minutes PreRecorded video

5 assignments

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There are 5 modules in this course

This advanced course applies Toyota Production System (Lean) principles to healthcare delivery improvement. The curriculum covers five comprehensive modules focusing on waste reduction, standardized work implementation, value stream mapping, and error proofing in healthcare settings. Students learn practical tools and methodologies to optimize healthcare processes, improve patient safety, and reduce costs. The course emphasizes the scientific method and patient-centered approaches, teaching healthcare professionals how to create sustainable system improvements.

Introduction to Applying TPS or Lean to Healthcare

Module 1 · 3 Hours to complete

Waste Reduction

Module 2 · 3 Hours to complete

Standardized Work and Preparing for Value Stream Mapping

Module 3 · 2 Hours to complete

Value Stream & Process Mapping, RIEs, and Leveling Flow

Module 4 · 2 Hours to complete

Error Proofing and Visual Controls

Module 5 · 3 Hours to complete

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Instructor

Frederick S. Southwick, MD
Frederick S. Southwick, MD

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41,331 Students

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Distinguished Medical Educator and Healthcare Reform Advocate

Frederick S. Southwick serves as Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida, bringing over four decades of expertise in infectious diseases and healthcare quality improvement. His impressive career includes serving as Chief of Infectious Diseases at UF and completing an Advanced Leadership Fellowship at Harvard Business School. His academic journey began at Yale College, followed by an MD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, with clinical training at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. His research contributions include groundbreaking work on proteins regulating white blood cell movement and infection fighting, earning him significant NIH funding and the University of Florida Research Foundation Award. He has authored multiple influential books, including "Critically Ill: A 5-point Plan to Cure Healthcare Delivery" and the widely-used "Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course" (4th edition, 2020). His Coursera courses on healthcare delivery improvement have reached over 25,000 students from 150 countries. As a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) and practicing physician, he continues to bridge the gap between medical practice and healthcare system improvement, while maintaining an active teaching role and contributing to prestigious medical journals

Advanced Lean Healthcare: Improving Delivery Systems

This course includes

16 Hours

Of Self-paced video lessons

Beginner Level

Completion Certificate

awarded on course completion

2,435

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