Reduce unwarranted variations for continuous improvement

To achieve consensus on best-practice standards it is necessary to

• Define best-practice standards
• Execute organization-wide best-practice standards
• Enable adherence to best-practice standards

Here are some solutions that can help to achieve consensus on best-practice standards:

Every single patient is unique – and it is precisely this uniqueness that is so challenging when considering how to reduce unwarranted variations. In order to adapt to patients’ individual needs it is necessary to:

• Tailor to patient’s unique anatomy and physiology
• Adjust to patient and organ motion
• Adapt to pre-existing co-morbidities

We have these adaptive technologies on offer:

Although different level of automation can be implemented, it is a common denominator that automation strives to relieve staff of routine tasks that are repetitive and error prone. For activities where an operator is required, semi-automated test execution with quality assurance brings significant performance benefits.

• Increase semi-automated quality control
• Automate single tasks
• Automate entire workflows

Here are some tools that can support increasing the levels of automation:

Facilitating better decision making by physicians creates a framework that can lower costs and variations significantly while improving patient outcomes. Physicians can be supported through:

• Assistance in the optimal clinical path selection with context-based guidance
• Generation of highly–specific and quantified information
• Optimization of clinical pathways through smart integration of information

Here are some solutions that can reduce unwarranted variations in care paths by assisting decision-making of physicians:

Enabling reproducibility of technology avoids unwarranted variations, and results in reliable and reproducible results, regardless of where, when and in which system they have been produced. To get to that point the following steps can be taken:

• Improve comparability
• Maintain up-to-date technology
• Increase uptime and reliable operations

Here are some solutions that can reduce unwarranted variations by implementing reproducible technology: