Standardize Your Process To Improve The Bottom Line
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Standardize Your Processes to Boost Your Bottom Line
Summary:
Standardizing processes can save time, reduce costs, and prevent errors, especially in healthcare. Consistency in repeated tasks ensures efficiency and quality, leading to better patient satisfaction and financial performance.
Keywords:
Lean healthcare, quality improvement, healthcare management, continuous quality improvement
Article Body:
Standardizing your processes is critical to saving time, cutting costs, and preventing errors. Tasks that are repeated frequently should follow a consistent method. While variety may add spice to life, in healthcare processes, consistency is key. Imagine buying a soda can that sometimes isn't full or is overflowing?"unacceptable, right? Consistent experiences are expected by both consumers and patients. Inconsistent healthcare results can drive patients to seek new providers, while consistent quality attracts and retains them.
Time Savings:
Standardization streamlines tasks, making them quicker and easier. For example, if a primary care physician ensures all necessary items are in the examination room, time is saved otherwise spent searching for supplies. By listing essential items and assigning responsibility to check stock daily, physicians can spend more quality time with patients or see more patients.
Cost Savings:
Standardization can also reduce costs. Consider anesthesiologists, who faced rising malpractice costs but managed to reduce them by standardizing procedures for patient safety. This initiative drastically decreased the frequency of incidents, significantly lowering malpractice insurance premiums.
Error Prevention:
Standardized processes prevent errors. At a local hospital's new facility, rooms were designed with bathrooms on the same side to avoid mistakes, ultimately saving money in the long run.
Measurement:
Measuring standardization is best done using variance or standard deviation. While the concept may be familiar, calculation might not be. Using a spreadsheet or calculator, you can measure the standard deviation of a process. For example, the numbers 8, 12, 1, 4, and 5 have a standard deviation of 4.18, while 5, 5, 5, 5, and 5 have a deviation of 0, indicating perfect standardization. Reducing the standard deviation is central to Six Sigma, a tool used by top manufacturers and service providers.
Documentation:
Once a process is standardized and the desired standard deviation is achieved, document it in a manual compiling all best practices. This serves as a reference for conducting processes and is an excellent training resource for new employees.
In summary, standardization or minimizing variance enhances patient safety, saves time for both providers and patients, and contributes to improved financial performance.
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