Information Processing and the Challenges Facing Lean Healthcare

Some challenges facing Lean Thinking in healthcare

While improvement methods have delivered higher efficiency and better quality products, the question of applicability in healthcare is still clouded by uncertainty. Traditionally, there have been opposing views: on the one hand promoting large-scale industrial-type improvement to bring healthcare into the modern era and, on the other, arguing that people are not motor cars and that simplistic a...

Lean Information Processing in the Specification Process

To improve the overall efficiency, from a supply chain perspective, manufactures are focusing their activities around a limited number of coreprocesses. Consequently the internal processing degree is reduced. When the degree of internal processing is reduced, the organizational balance between manufacturing processes and cross-organizational integration processes shifts, and this is reflected i...

Facing the role of the amygdala in emotional information processing.

T he neurobiology of social information processing provides a fascinating window into human nature and how primate brains evolved to deal with challenges of living in large social groups. Faces and facial expressions of emotion are critical for social identification and for modulation of appropriate responding in social situations. The decoding of emotional information, and the subsequent integ...

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...

Challenges Facing Educational Research