Certified As a green belt in Six Sigma, I was pleased to see the article titled From Factory Faculty [March/April 2010, Bruce j. Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP] into your publication. For those unfamiliar with the world of production, Six Sigma is often a term is unknown. And many of those who are familiar with it understand to be something that doesn't really affect your professional field. However, the methodologies of Six Sigma quality improvement are working their way slowly out setting traditional industry and by many different types of businesses. I'm glad to see that is used most frequently to continue operations of medical education and health care in general setting.
This growth in the use of six sigma outside manufacturing is a logical step. The description of the process, broken down into simpler terms, is to remove errors (faults) and (more) variables in a process for the manufacture of the product of the highest quality. In Six Sigma, a defect is defined as any process output that does not meet customer specifications, or that could create an output that does not meet the customer specifications 1.1 is nice to see that health professionals are seeing the value in this process for the treatment of patients.Implementing Six Sigma in the field means that a process is free of defects 99.99966%. what a wonderful goal that is in our care system that is responsible for the care of patients and not only those processes that are used to improve the quality of materials.
I believe the bridge to quality initiative, as described in article Bellande s, will help strengthen the role of Six Sigma in healthcare setting.It should bring value to all stakeholders: Administrators, doctors, teachers, students and patients. And there should be a change in mindset, regardless of the group, to a model of systems, including that (1) all work occurring on a system of interconnected processes, (2) variation exists in all processes and (3) understanding and analyzing the variations are the keys to success. 2, 3
My personal experience with Six Sigma was specifically under ECM. It included analyzing the educational activity, marketing process and revise and improve the grant writing process.Both these projects not only provided process improvements but also brought to bear on teamwork from various stakeholders who participated in or affected by processes.I'm sure the bridge to quality initiative will have the same result, and in the end, all interested parties, albeit by different groups, will be success working together to to get to where they want to go to the overall improvement of patient outcomes.
Here we are now at the end of 2010, when a workshop is being held at the campus of Indiana University School of Medicine to take the initiative to level 6 (the health of the patient), on the scale of results of Moore's seven levels ECM. look forward to hearing the results of this next step in the new direction that is undertaken jointly by all those involved in the bridge to quality initiative. greetings to all those involved to move in a new direction and the use of new methodologies for improving performance in patients results!
Sandra t. Weaver, MS
Vice-President, strategic alliances
CME peer review
References:
1. Antony, j., 2008 (8 January) .Pro s and on s of six sigma: an academic point of view. retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20080723015058/http://www.onesixsigma.com/node/7630
2. Snee, R.D. (1190). Statistical thinking and its contribution to total quality. The American Statistician, 44, 118-121
(URL: Stable http://www.jstor.org/stable/2684144)
3. Snee, R.D. (2000). impact of Six sigma quality engineering quality engineering, 12(2), 9-14
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