title: Physician strives to create lean, clean health care machine. Studies of manufacturing processes may one day help make your practice more efficient.
abstract: Elisabeth Hager, MD, MMM, CPE, is teaming up with scientists and industrialists to teach physicians how to apply principles of lean, total-quality manufacturing to their practices. She believes innovation and efficiencies can help doctors resurrect their profession's image and their control over it--and perhaps even reinvent American health care.
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authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States