Inside Health Care

  |  02/12/2009

Cardinal Health Pursues Lean Six Sigma Excellence Through Simulations

(Moresteam.com: Columbus, Ohio) -- Cardinal Health, a global manufacturer and distributor of health care supplies and technologies, uses innovative lean Six Sigma training methods to pursue their goal of total process and safety excellence. In a Feb. 19 web cast available to the public, Cardinal Health will reveal the details and principles underlying their success. Co-hosted by MoreSteam.com, this web cast will explore Cardinal Health’s application of online classes and simulations to produce more capable lean Six Sigma professionals.

Working with partners across the industry, Cardinal Health relentlessly focuses on health care safety and productivity. Their goals: Zero errors, zero waste, zero lost revenue, and zero of the challenges that divert focus from patient care. On Feb. 19, Holly Stein, director of operational excellence at Cardinal Health will discuss Cardinal’s worldwide deployment and how the company uses simulated practice to produce confident Belts with enough experience to complete projects leading to Cardinal’s goals. 

The web cast will be held at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 19. This online session will be free and open to the public. Stein will cover the evolution of simulated learning, the benefits of simulated practice in today's demanding economic environment, the top 10 insights about simulation learning in the field, and evaluation criteria to assess the fit of simulation for a lean Six Sigma deployment. Stein’s copresenter will be Bill Hathaway, founder and CEO of MoreSteam.com.

The web cast is designed to be helpful to lean Six Sigma deployments of all sizes and levels of maturity. “Their use of simulations to increase the ratio of practice to performance has delivered valuable benefits to Cardinal Health, specifically through the students’ engagement and retention of the material,” Hathaway says.

To register for this free event, visit www.moresteam.com/moresteam_news.cfm.

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