Non-Value-Added-Activity

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The use of technology to improve processes and eliminate waste is embraced by the Toyota Production System and should be incorporated by hospitals and health care offices as well. Technology can reduce the manual labor involved in many processes that take place within a hospital and improve overall efficiency. As mentioned earlier, due to limited staff in our sports medicine department, athletes would come in for rehabilitation whenever they wanted to come in; however, this caused for multiple people coming in at the same time and me not being able to fully treat everyone to the fullest; this caused for non-value-added-activity. My solution to this problem was to implement appointment times by using an online scheduling app that I have access

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