Lean - Henry Ford Health System

The Henry Ford Production System
Effective Reduction of Process Defects and
Waste in Surgical Pathology
Richard J Zarbo and Rita D’Angelo AJCP 2007;128:1015-1022.
The Henry Ford Production System
Measures of Process Defects and Waste
in Surgical Pathology as a Basis for Quality
Improvement Initiatives
Rita D’Angelo and Richard J Zarbo AJCP 2007;128:423-429.
LEAN Training 2010
“We do nothing at all in what is sometimes
ambitiously called research, excepting as it
relates to our single objective.”
The Henry Ford Production System
Reduction of Surgical Pathology In-Process
Misidentification Defects by Bar Code Specified
Work Process Standardization
Richard J. Zarbo, J. Mark Tuthill, Rita D’Angelo, Ruan Varney,
Beverly Mahar,Cheryl Neuman, and Adrian Ormsby
AJCP 2009;131:468-477
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The Henry Ford Production System
LEAN Process Redesign Improves Service in
the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory
Cankovic M, Varney R, Whitely L, Brown R, D'Angelo R,
Chitale D, Zarbo RJ:
J Mol Diagn 11:390–399, 2009.
Henry Ford Production System