Enhance your laboratory performance with Lean Management | Sebia

Clinical Lab Environments & Objectives

The Clinical laboratory environment has drastically changed over the past years. Innovation, Automation, IT Connectivity and logistics, has resulted in, the emergence of bigger and bigger Laboratories and laboratory chains focused on operational efficiency. Driven by a constant competition, these labs look to optimize their resources and for cost effective solutions.

In the countries where the Clinical laboratories hasn’t been impacted by this phenomenon, innovation in analysis technology and data management is also the predominant driver for improving patient care and their necessary market development.

At the same time, reference Hospital and University laboratories are subjected to medical advances and cost constraints that require innovative technical and management solutions to provide a patient care of high quality.

Common to all the key players of the health network is the relentless pursuit of cost reduction.

Diagnostic

On the market, one can find plenty of innovative Technical and IT solutions to enable cost reduction and laboratory performance improvement. The challenge here is not the quantity and the quality of the solutions but:

How do I make sure this solution is the best-fit solution for my lab?
How will I manage this change?
How to ensure that this solution won’t be one more layer that will increase the complexity in the operation management?

These critical questions, that are really challenging to answer, are for the lab Managers.
Sebia Lean Service, combined with Sebia product solutions and Scientific expertise, provides the process excellence and operational efficiency support to lab managers for answering these questions.

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Workflow efficiency & lean management

The primary missions of laboratories is to provide high quality, reliable and timely clinical diagnosis results to health professionals and patients while staying within budget. This amounts to simply trying to reach efficiency, which is what Lean management solutions do: aim for Quality with just the necessary resources.

The main Lean principle is to concentrate the resources around the core mission of the lab while targeting and eliminating all unnecessary tasks. This results in performance improvement.

Lean Service Presentation

Sebia Lean service is designed to enhance the laboratory performance with customized product and management solutions. It is composed of a modular and scalable service offer.

Sebia Lean Service Package

Lean Assessment

Key benefits:

Measure the overall laboratory performance
Perform a waste analysis
Identify Improvement opportunities

Solution dimensioning

Key benefits:

Ensure human, material and infrastructure lab resource optimization
Provide appropriate product and management solutions
Apply complex problem-solving methodology

Solution integration

Key benefits:

Ensure a solution integration consistent with pre- and post-analytical processes
Take into account operator capacity and capability
Provide key elements of Change Management

Impact analysis

Key benefits:

Quantify the expected benefits
Demonstrate efficiency providing data
Set performance objectives

Lean Conversion

Key benefits:

Develop a Lean culture by showing the lean management impact.
Support people development
Achieve operational excellence

Deliverables:

Training sessions
Workshop facilitation, Kaizen, Problem solving
Standard Lean package deliverables

Audit plan:

Scope: Logistics, pre to post analytical processes, QA, Product and IT solutions
Requirements: From few hours for a training up to 3 days for a workshop for 1 to 3 Subject matter experts.

Agenda:

Round of discussions / presentations to set up the goals and strategy before execution.