Estrategia Lean Healthcare como Innovación de Atención en Instituciones Prestadoras de Salud

Abstract

Currently, needs arise in the implementation of innovative methodologies and strategies that guide care models in health services, optimizing the use of resources in the provision of services and thus guarantee quality, effectiveness and efficiency, which responds to patient-centered care. On the other hand, there are methodologies that have been implemented in fields other than the health sector and that can be adopted successfully, thus obtaining satisfactory results, achieving models that generate value propositions towards the patient and their families, communities and institutions. Thus, through a systematic review of literature with a qualitative approach through a search in databases and whose objective is to describe the positive effects in the implementation of the Lean Healthcare methodology as a tool to obtain efficient health service providing institutions, it was In this way, it is possible to conclude that the implementation of the LEAN Heathcare methodology is diverse, and directly proportional to each institution, however, it could be said that the main objective is the reduction of unnecessary movements, loss of value and the adoption of continuous improvement strategies.