Healthcare Performance Group - Overview

Standardizing supply stocks helps reduce wasted time and effort for the hospital nursing staff.

Weeding out waste and creating a more productive culture for hospitals and other healthcare organizations requires a comprehensive solution.  Georgia Tech’s Healthcare Performance Group (HPG) applies a set of proven tools to help healthcare providers produce long-term, bottom-line improvements.

Georgia Tech’s healthcare performance staff has broad expertise in process improvement, lean, quality and related techniques.  HPG specialists consult with top management to identify issues, then lead hospital staff to map out key processes, identify bottlenecks, brainstorm improvements, break down barriers between departments – and learn techniques that can be applied to improving other processes.

The results speak for themselves:

• One rural hospital reduced average patient time in the emergency room by 44 percent – while maintaining a 92 percent customer satisfaction rating.
• A smaller urban hospital increased utilization of its operating rooms by 10 percent through more efficient turnaround technique.
• One metropolitan hospital saved its nursing staff 750 minutes per day by improving its system for storing and maintaining IV pumps.
• A large Atlanta hospital used the adoption of a new electronic records system to make process improvements that boosted efficiency.