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Benefits of connecting rfid and lean principles in health care

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  • Álvarez, María José
  • Aguado Correa, Francisco
  • Barcos, Lucía

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The performance management process in health care is far behind compared to the manufacturing and service industries. Although nowadays the health care organizations are able to deal with a greater rank diseases, their cost, quality and delivery has essentially not improved significantly, and the difference with the other industries even seems to have increased. As opposed to this situation health care has a tremendous opportunity to deploy lean principles to reduce internal/external costs, improve patient safety, increase profits, reduce litigation and decrease the dependence on Government and Insurance. The application of these principles is being facilitated by the use of the new technologies. A new technology allowing personnel to constantly "see" what's happening with regards to patients schedule, backlog, workflow, inventory levels, resource utilization, quality, etc., is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The aim of this paper is to analyse the benefits that can be derived from the joint use of lean principles and RFID technology in health care.

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  • Álvarez, María José & Aguado Correa, Francisco & Barcos, Lucía, 2005. "Benefits of connecting rfid and lean principles in health care," DEE - Working Papers. Business Economics. WB wb054410, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía de la Empresa.
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