Squeezing the Fat From Health Care: Hospital Finds That Lean Management Improves Efficiency and Patient Care
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--At St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, heart attack patients are receiving faster treatment.
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NEW YORK  - Obese individuals who suffer a stroke are significantly less likely to be discharged home and tend to stay in the hospital longer than lean individuals who suffer a stroke, researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have observed.
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NEW YORK  - Contrary to what might be expected, the quality of care that patients receive increases with the number of medical conditions they have, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Â· Study suggests common process in combined cases  Â· Rise in weight problems and respiratory condition
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Fidgeting and other seemingly minor physical activity can make the difference between being lean and obese, researchers reported today.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Nearly 30 percent of American workers are obese, which can reduce their productivity and greatly increase their cardiovascular disease risk factors.
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(Source: Epicor)  The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management.
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Â· Sequencing may help tackle obesity and cancerÂ· Patients could have tests before having children
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GPs are providing more and better services to patients, performance figures suggest.
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NEW YORK  - Much of the racial and ethnic  differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a  heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to  which patients are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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There are big variations in the amount of time a patient remains in hospital following standard surgery in England, research suggests.
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At St. Luke's Hospital, each of the 14 new neurology intensive care rooms has a feature that's becoming standard in the health care industry: a patient lift system that can handle 600 pounds.
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By coordinating care and keeping their patients out of the hospital, doctors can help reduce overall health care spending, Medicare officials said.
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Ilumina reorganizes to concentrate on diagnostic tests.
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Applying logic that only a bean counter could love, a Dutch study concludes that fat people put less of a strain, not more, on the health-care system because they die sooner.
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WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. hospitals that switched from using doctors&#39; handwritten prescriptions to computerized drug ordering systems had a 66 percent drop in medication errors, say the authors of a review that looked at the results of 12 studies.
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The growing number of obese Americans and the rising cost of caring for them is responsible for 27 percent of the increase in health-care costs since 1987, according to a study in the journal Health Affairs.