Lean Thinking Your Way Through an EMR Implementation: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning and Executing a Successful Project

Lean thinking provides a solution to the high cost and variable success of implementing federally mandated electronic medical records (EMR). This valuable book presents readers with a framework for adopting EMRs by applying powerful, time-tested, Lean principles to develop best practices. The authors demonstrate how applying Lean to EMR implementations can save organizations millions of dollars and deliver value and superior outcomes. Key concepts are illustrated with detailed case studies.