Use these tools to help bring your processes to life. The first step to improving a process such as intake, billing, or insurance verification is to understand the current process. These powerful tools can help you faciliate your own process mapping session

Note: This is a limited version of the complete Lean Toolkit being offered through the Medgroup.

The Lean ToolKit for HME providers includes everything you need to begin implementing lean tools, concepts, and techniques directly into your business. The toolkit includes a e-version process mapping template with a how-to-guide that walks you through a process mapping exercise.

The Lean ToolKit also includes a 5S audit forms so you can self-assess your warehouse operations - tips and suggestions for implementing 5S in a warehouse are also included.

Other resources include:

- Waste identification guides

- Data and process evaluations tools

- Lean planning and implementation tools

- Standard work matrix

- How-to-guide for process mapping

How lean are your processes? This e-tool will walk you through a process as you "score" several key aspects of the process 

How close is your warehouse or office operation to a true 5S state? Use this tool as a self-audit guide. The tool not only provides you with a quick assessment of your current 5S state, it will also serve as a useful training guide as you begin to implement 5S in your workplace.

Note: Two versions are included

Help sustain and reinforce the 5S concept everyday to all of your employees. This poster provides a very visual and appealing way to remined everyone what each "S" means and what they can do to bring it to life. Click Here to view

This chart provides an effective and very visual way to constantly remind staff of the common forms of process-related waste (or non-value addes activities) that are common in many HME business processes.

This chart identifies handoffs, rework, waiting, errors, and bottlenecks and provides relevant examples.  

The Memory Jogger is designed to to be used as a quick and convenient reference guide for on-the-job process and performance improvement. This handy pocket-sized reference book can help any leader faciliate improvement work within your organization.

Webinars are high-quality and are recorded on a DVD.

This webinar will describe how to optimize warehouse and shipping operations. Topics covered include effective layout, storage and organization tips, workflow tactics, and general operational improvement - all designed to mininze waste, reduce errors, improve service, and decrease costs within the typical warehouse operation. Designed for HME, LTC, and home infusion audiences.

Practical and relevant examples are provided along with pictures and examples to help reinforce key learning objectives.

a montly collection of best practices, innovation stories, lean process improvement ideas, and general insight from some of the top lean thinkers in HME, Homecare and Long Term Care

10 Ways to Improve Any Process or Workflow……..And Get Results That Last

Have you struggled with getting movement on a process improvement effort? Do you and your team keep coming back to the same old issues again and again? Chances are you are making one (or more) of the common mistakes associated with stalled process improvement efforts.

Whether you are trying to improve intake, delivery, confirmation, or a billing process, understanding effective and proven techniques can help you

This informative live webinar will shed insight into how successful process improvement projects are planned, executed, and sustained.