(Rucker & Associates: Raleigh, NC) -- Health care experts got a dose of lean Six Sigma principles when Rucker & Associates presented its best industry practices to ISH Inc. to help the company better understand the power of lean Six Sigma for efficiency and productivity.

Florida-based ISH Inc. has developed hundreds of quality improvement initiatives at many of the nation’s leading health care organizations. Working with Rucker has been its first exposure to lean Six Sigma principles in action. ISH Inc. is a provider of office-processing and time-management software for the health care industry.

Bonnie Smith of Rucker & Associates hand-led the presentation to administrators at ISH Inc., providing them with information on ways to integrate lean Six Sigma principles into everyday operations to improve performance. Smith is an efficiency expert who played a pivotal role in creating the synthesis of lean principles and Six Sigma tools now known as lean Six Sigma.

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