Healthcare Webinars
Tefen's healthcare webinars focus on ways to improve cost, quality, and access in individual hospital departments using lean and six sigma methodologies.
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Establishing a Streamlined Distribution Flow
The Right Med at the Right Time in the Right Place: Establishing a Streamlined Distribution Flow
To ensure patient safety and nursing satisfaction, the hospital’s phar
In this webinar you will learn about techniques and methodologies you can use to become the new industry standard. Topics will include how
· Transform your pharmacy to a Lean enterprise while maintaining regulatory concerns, patient safety and quality of care
· Create the standard tools and templates to notify when medication is
· Establish a robust turnaround time for Stat and Routine orders, measured from order processing to medication availability
· Effectively distribute to automated dispensing machines, medication
· Develop a staffing model to support the demand of the hospital
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macy operation must be reliable and efficient with a demonstrated ability to prevent medication error and excessive clinical clarifications. Join Tefen USA’s experienced professionals, Germán Rueda and Alicia Scavona, to learn the techniques and methodologies that will streamline your pharmacy’s distribution process to ensure the right medication is available at the right time and the right place. to:
Applying Operations Excellence to Provider Practice Patterns
Dr. Susan Rutherford, Medical Director, Women’s and Children’s Services for Evergreen Healthcare and Greg Bridges, Project Manager, Tefen USA hosted a free webinar on provider practice patterns.
Some of the challenges facing hospitals today include practice variation, lack of standardized care, and problems in data collection. These issues result in increased cost, decreased quality of care, and diminished patient satisfaction.
This webinar will explain how Tefen’s engagement at Evergreen Healthcare yielded dramatic increases in capacity and patient/staff satisfaction, while reducing length of stay and practice variation.
A Tefen Series: Revolutionize Your Healthcare System’s Materials Management
Allina’s Pat Moore, Director of Materials & Logistics, with Tefen USA’s Greg Bridges, Project Manager and Daniel Zeh, Senior Consultant discuss how to maintain accountability, control, and continuous improvements within Materials Management to help reduce costs.
Learn how to:
- Establish par levels based on consumption, not shelf space
- Improve operational efficiency through 5S organization tools
- Consolidate inventory storage locations
- Apply lean principles to your warehouse and stock room operations
- Discuss pros & cons of automated inventory control technologies
- Leverage efficiencies by centralizing supply distribution to eliminate waste and better utilize materials management resources
- Redesign the methods for materials to enter each hospital
- Implement point-of-use delivery methods to minimize warehouse-type operations within the hospital
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A Tefen Series: Reducing Cost & Increasing Efficiency Through Competitive Sourcing
The current economic conditions coupled with the upcoming reduction in reimbursements will force hospitals to find creative ways to reduce their cost structure. A standardized sourcing approach will drive tremendous savings for hospitals when purchasing commodities or services.
Allina’s Kim Sorbel, United Hospital Director of Campus Services with Tefen USA’s Wolfgang Dorsch, Senior Consultant, and Alicia Scavona, Project Manager present the benefits of a competitive sourcing methodology.
This complimentary webinar will discuss tools and methodologies to effectively drive sourcing initiative, while illustrating how your organization can create a strategic model to help reduce cost, increase revenue and improve operations.
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A Tefen Series: A PMO Approach to Managing Your Operational & Strategic Initiatives
Hospital administrators of both hospitals and systems are managing multiple initiatives in operations and strategy. How do you objectively decide which projects to pursue, and how do you effectively manage them?
Allina’s Brian Rice, Director, Strategy & Business Development and Robert Mele, Director, PMO, together with Tefen USA’s Partner, Gil Amoray and Consultant, Brandon Rosen discuss the introduction of a Healthcare PMO at Allina.
This webinar will discuss:
- The differences between an IT and an operational/strategic PMO
- How to design, implement, and create a sustainable Project Management Office with the tools and techniques utilized at Allina
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Two Hours = Two Rooms
Patricia Johnson, SVP Nurising, Woman's Hospital of Baton Rouge and Tom Guglielmo, Partner, Tefen USA recently hosted a webinar on operational excellence in a new and existing facility to improve patient satisfaction, while reducing length of stay. This webinar focused on the quantitative analysis and process design required prior to the design of a new facility.
Learn how these concepts were applied at Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, who recently underwent a similar experience, and will incorporate the outcome into the space requirements for its new campus, scheduled to open in 2011.
Two Rooms = Two Hours is sponsored by: Healthcare Facilites Symposium and Expo
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Operational Planning & Use of Simulation Tools in Healthcare
Brigham and Women's Hospital's Debra Rogers, Executive Director of Cardiovasuclar Services and Joseph Camillus, Director of Emergency Medicine, Joseph O'Farrell, Senior Project Manager, and Tefen USA's Partner, Gil Amoray, for a free webinar on operational planning.
You will learn the challenges faced by BWH in moving their cardiovascular services into the Shapiro Cardiovascular Building, and learn about the tools used to perform operational planning, including simulation tools.
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Patient Stay Management & Procedure Scheduling in Obstetrics
"Tackling the Uncertainties of Obstetrics"
After the success of the first obstetrics webinar, Greg Bridges and Mara Zabari, Director of Women and Children's Services at Evergreen Healthcare will present another webinar on patient stay management and procedure scheduling.
- September 2009: "Tackling the Uncertainties of Obstetrics"
- April 2009: "Tackling the Uncertainties of Obstetrics" Watch the Webinar Video
Operational Excellence in Surgical Services
"On-Time Start: Applying Operations Excellence to Your Operating Rooms"
Every operating room deparment has its issues to deal with on a day-to-day basis. This webinar will explore where and how you can apply Operations Excellence to improve performance.
Join Laura Clouatare, Director of Perioperative Services, Woman's Hospital and German Rueda, Project Manager, Tefen, on September 16th, at 2pm EST for this complimentary webinar to discuss:
- The importance and benefits of creating the Patient Journey Map from Pre-Admit to Discharge.
- Eliminating non-value added activities across the department
- How to significantly improve patient flow, increase case throughpout to ultimately increase revenue and patient and staff satisfaction.
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For more information, contact Cristina Priamo cpriamo@tefen.com
